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Counting Down : a Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond / Deborah Gold, Michael M.
- Author
- Gold, Deborah
- Published
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Additional Creators
- M., Michael
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- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I. Foster Family's Initiation -- Zero to One Hundred -- Questions -- II. Learning the Road -- DSS: Department of Social Services -- Dry Creek Drive: The Highway to Hell, essay / Michael -- Poem of Hell on Earth, poem / Michael -- Counting Down: Reunification -- Pickup Line -- Gel Pens -- In a Prison, essay / Michael -- What's in Your Toolbox? poem / Michael -- Fork in the Road, essay / Michael -- Cleaning Up for DSS -- She Said Yes -- Shepherd's Way, essay / Michael -- III. Reading around the Curves -- Cody -- Fast and the Furious, or Other Visions of Cody -- IV. Door to Door, House to House -- Halloween, essay / Michael -- Hallowtide -- Uncle Jonah, essay / Michael -- Make It Stop Now, poem / Michael.
- Summary
- When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family.
- Subject(s)
- Gold, Deborah—Family
- Gold, Deborah (Pseudonym)—Family
- Foster home care—Appalachian Region
- Foster parents—Appalachian Region
- Foster children—Appalachian Region
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE—Public Policy—Social Services & Welfare
- FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS—Adoption & Fostering
- Families
- Foster children
- Foster home care
- Foster parents
- Appalachian Region
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780821446188 (electronic bk.)
0821446185 (electronic bk.)
9780821422977
9780821422960
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