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Summary: Excellent Book!
Review: One of the best books I've read in a long time. Kathy Harrison details her life as a foster parent including her shortcomings and mistakes. Strongly recommend this book for any one curious about the foster care system or intersted in becoming a foster parent.
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Summary: A great story
Review: Reading this is inspiring and will make everyone who reads it want to be a foster parent.
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Summary: The Family Table
Review: This account of providing a home for children who were in dire need is heartwarming and encouraging. Many of the children who had a place at this table had parents who were in jail or were deemed legally unable to care for them. Each child came equipped with major emotional baggage.The love and acceptance and diligent, dogged efforts on behalf of each child in this home have indeed raised the bar. Instead of being a stark and grim account akin to Dickens, this work instead is uplifting and hopeful. One can only feel that each child who found a place at this table was very fortunate indeed. This is a book that belongs on our collective bookshelves; in our collective hearts and libraries. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: The Family Table
Review: This account of providing a home for children who were in dire need is heartwarming and encouraging. Many of the children who had a place at this table had parents who were in jail or were deemed legally unable to care for them. Each child came equipped with major emotional baggage. The love and acceptance and diligent, dogged efforts on behalf of each child in this home have indeed raised the bar. Instead of being a stark and grim account akin to Dickens, this work instead is uplifting and hopeful. One can only feel that each child who found a place at this table was very fortunate indeed. This is a book that belongs on our collective bookshelves; in our collective hearts and libraries. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
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Summary: A Must-Read for All Prospective Foster Parents
Review: This book is an excellent book on what the foster care system in this country is really like. It is written by someone who was been a foster parent and has seen the ins and outs first hand. She is very straightforward and honest about the foster care system and does not sugar-coat anything. She talks about the shortcomings of being a foster parent, such as the stigma attached to foster parents, the low pay, being on-call 24-7, kids getting sent back to abusive families, getting attached to a child, only to have to say goodbye, having to protect your family from the more dangerous foster kids, etc. I really liked how she talked about the different foster kids and the descriptions of their backgrounds that brought them to foster care in the first place. Some parts of the book were difficult to read because of some of the difficult and painful situations that some of the kids were in. But I would highly recommend this book to someone who is considering being a foster parent.
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Summary: A good description of the foster care system
Review: This book is an excellent book on what the foster care system in this country is really like. It is written by someone who was been a foster parent and has seen the ins and outs first hand. She is very straightforward and honest about the foster care system and does not sugar-coat anything. She talks about the shortcomings of being a foster parent, such as the stigma attached to foster parents, the low pay, being on-call 24-7, kids getting sent back to abusive families, getting attached to a child, only to have to say goodbye, having to protect your family from the more dangerous foster kids, etc. I really liked how she talked about the different foster kids and the descriptions of their backgrounds that brought them to foster care in the first place. Some parts of the book were difficult to read because of some of the difficult and painful situations that some of the kids were in. But I would highly recommend this book to someone who is considering being a foster parent.
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Summary: It's wonderful
Review: This book is great. It describes being a foster parent in such a way that everyone who reads it would want to be a foster parent. It is well written and purely enjoyable to read as well.
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Summary: Eye-opening
Review: This book is well written and flows between factual information on forgotten kids and the foster care system and anectdotal information. A perfect way to get your point across and have it hit home. I am not in postion to be a foster parent but now I am more aware of what happens to neglect and abused children and hope I can be supportive in the future. Kathy Harrison and her husband should be held in awe.
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Summary: A Must-Read for All Prospective Foster Parents
Review: This book should be mandatory reading for anyone interested in becoming a foster parent. Having been a social worker in the foster care system for many years, I appreciate Kathy's frank presentation of some of the most difficult issues that any foster parent may face. Some people go into fostering with a rosy picture of helping an innocent, angelic child, and those people are setting themselves up to fail. Kathy presents a realistic picture of the ups and downs of fostering, the good and the bad, that is definitely not for the faint of heart but is a true depiction of the feelings and constitution that it takes to bring wounded children into your home. I couldn't put it down.
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Summary: Another Place at the Table
Review: This is an excellent book about the realities of foster parenting. Kathryn Harrison does not try to whitewash what it is like to bring horribly abused children into a home that already has children. She presents the good, the bad, and the ugly with a refreshing honesty. This book should be mandatory reading for prospective foster and adoptive parents.
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