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When God Became ApParent
When God Became ApParent
216 pages, Paperback
First published January 8, 2003
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March 3, 2020
This book is specifically for children who have lost a parent, but it applies to many more groups: kids with druggie parents, kids with the loss of both parents, kids who have a parent that is dead to them be it for whatever reason. One of the people interviewed said that having a parent die is worse than having a parent that is just gone, but I would strongly disagree. I see a lot of kids whose parents do drugs, and everytime that they see them again, the child dies a little more. At least with a death the parent is frozen in time, but with a drug addict parent they are absent, they continually make bad memories, hope repeatedly dies, and usually there are no safe places because grandparents feel the irresponsible need to keep helping the drug addict by allowing them a place to stay (usually where the child is). One example of this the daughter walked in on the mom shooting up. A life of disappointment and abandonment is all that girl knows. And no one is there to defend her because the father just got with the mom for sex.
Rather than a dry textbook, we get interviews with people who actually live in it, and have personally experienced this. The interview answers were categorized and put into different chapters as well for ease of access. At the end are sources if you want the textbook, but they all lack what this book provides. I had a class with Dr. Daugherty in college and actually worked as his work study, but I just now finally read this. He wrote it for his dissertation I believe. Some people feel like adoption is not for them, and others feel like they are the only ones doing anything. I would recommend this book for everyone.
Rather than a dry textbook, we get interviews with people who actually live in it, and have personally experienced this. The interview answers were categorized and put into different chapters as well for ease of access. At the end are sources if you want the textbook, but they all lack what this book provides. I had a class with Dr. Daugherty in college and actually worked as his work study, but I just now finally read this. He wrote it for his dissertation I believe. Some people feel like adoption is not for them, and others feel like they are the only ones doing anything. I would recommend this book for everyone.
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