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Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System
Sarah Gerstenzang
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Description for Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System
One night, social workers brought a baby girl to the author's home, and her life as a foster mother began. This title offers her anecdotes and reflections about race: acceptance and prejudice from others; the feelings of her two children about having a sibling of a different race; and efforts to maintain links to the culture of the child's origin. Num Pages: 224 pages, references, index. BIC Classification: JHBK; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 508.
One night - after midnight - social workers brought a baby girl to the author's home, and her life as a foster mother began. A social worker herself, Sarah Gerstenzang discovered that raising Cecilia, despite all the personal joys, would be a complex and frustrating process of ""co-parenting"" with the foster care system in New York City. Foster parents are in great demand, but they are not necessarily treated well. We follow the author through the home visits, the Early Intervention evaluation, the WIC program that (with much bureaucratic hassle) provides free formula and cereal, and the mandatory parenting training ... Read more
One night - after midnight - social workers brought a baby girl to the author's home, and her life as a foster mother began. A social worker herself, Sarah Gerstenzang discovered that raising Cecilia, despite all the personal joys, would be a complex and frustrating process of ""co-parenting"" with the foster care system in New York City. Foster parents are in great demand, but they are not necessarily treated well. We follow the author through the home visits, the Early Intervention evaluation, the WIC program that (with much bureaucratic hassle) provides free formula and cereal, and the mandatory parenting training ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826515483
SKU
V9780826515483
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-3
About Sarah Gerstenzang
Sarah Gerstenzang is an Assistant Project Director of the Adoption Exchange Association, an organization dedicated to finding adoptive families for the 119,000 children who wait in foster care. She was formerly a Senior Policy Analyst at Children's Rights and holds a Masters in Social Work from Columbia University. She and her husband live with their three children in Brooklyn, New ... Read more
Reviews for Another Mother: Co-Parenting with the Foster Care System
Sarah Gerstenzang does an excellent job of capturing the anxieties and challenges of fostering children in today's public child welfare system in this lively and engaging personal narrative. Although her story can be read as a white family's struggles with a less-than-supportive system to provide loving care to an African American infant, it is also an insightful commentary on current ... Read more