Gay courter
I Speak For This Child: True Stories of a Infant Advocate
Although Ms. Courter makes many nice points about how the system is not set up to best assist the children under their care, and society is not well served when these not good served children become adults, I did feel defensive about her generalizations of DCF/DCF-equivalent employees as not caring and/or not motivated by or working toward what is in the best interest of the children. These are her experiences, but as a foster and foster adoptive parent I dealt with social workers who really cared and worked hard for the best interest of the children. I agree the system is not perfect, including that even with kind employees the system holds on to children much too long, but the social workers and lawyers that I have encountered contain been very attentive, working within a flawed and often understaffed system.
I had planned on passing this manual on to someone who is considering becoming a CASA after I finished it. Although I
The Midwife &#; Courter, Gay
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Title: The Midwife
Authors: Courter, Gay
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston
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Edition: First Edition
Book Condition: G
D-j Condition: G
Comments: D-j chipped. Book has minor wear and has bumped corners.
Synopsis: Hannah Blau, the midwife, fought savage religious prejudice to win medical training in Moscow&#;s legendary Imperial College. She fought her own doubts and fears as she plunged into a forbidden adore affair and an even more hazard-filled marriage. She fought the awesome odds facing a Jewish immigrant and the bitter hostility of male doctors in turn-of-the-century New York. She fought for her burning dreams and desires. She fought and she won.
This magnificent novel follows the courageous and passionate Hannah Blau from the corridors of the Imperial Palace to the Lower East Side and finally to New York&#;s Fifth Avenue mansions &#; recreating a whole new world of striving, of love, of lust, of life, death and birth.
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I Utter For This Child: True Stories of a Child Advocate
- By: Gay Courter
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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Bestselling novelist Gay Courter recounts her experiences as a Guardian ad Litem, a volunteer court-appointed special advocate (CASA) for children emotionally attached in the legal system due to abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Her story is both heartbreaking and heartwarming, and is an inspiration for anyone who has ever looked up from a newspaper and wondered, "What can I do to help?"
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The Midwife
1 - The Midwife (Feb)2 - The Midwife's Advice (Oct)
Book List in Order: 8 titles
- The Midwife
The Midwife - 1
Hannah Blau, the midwife, fought savage religious prejudice to gain medical training in Moscow's legendary Imperial College. She fought her own doubts and fears as she plunged into a forbidden love affair and an even more hazard-filled marriage. She
- River of Dreams
"Nothing in Brazil is as it first seems," convent-bred Margaret Claiborne is warned when she arrives in Rio de Janeiro, a city named for a non-existent river. One of many who fled the defeated South to Brazil after the Civil War, Margaret is a brilli
- Flowers in the Blood
Beautiful Dinah Sassoon, daughter of an affluent opium trader and pillar of Calcutta's tight-knit Jewish community, see her privileged future destroyed when her mother is mysteriously murdered. This tragic eve