Turning Stones: A must read

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	• Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story Marc Parent, Anna Quindlen (foreword) Ballantine Books, 1998 - 400 pages average customer review:based on 186 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

I hope to turn stones

I read this book before I started working with children at risk and this book created so many feelings of confusion and questions in my inner soul. Why do parents treat their children like this? What can we do to help parents STOP abusing and neglecting their children? Are people capable of changing and becoming good parents? Nobody knows the answers, but everyone knows that what human services agencies are doing now is NOT creating change. How many children have to die before changes, that make a difference, are made? This realistic rendition, of Parent's experiences working with children that the public does not want to talk about, should challenge all to turn stones.

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Turning Stones: A must read

Marc Parent's book is a gripping account of the horrible things that some children go through every day and the people who respond. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in child welfare issues.

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beautifully written

turning stones is a wonderful book.its a collection of true events and stories of children at risk , all beautifully written and lovingly compiled by the author , marc parent ,who was himself a case worker in children's welfare services[new york] for 4 years.this book narrates many stories of various children who are abused in some way or the other.also, this book gives us an insight into a case workers life and the dilemnas he faces while attending to children in need.every chapter has a new story to tell and the readers will find it very compelling not to put the book down.a wonderful book for anyone interested in children or human interest stories.

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excellent book

I am using this book with my undergraduate class at a major university. It's a wonderful and honest account of working wtih children at-risk. It reads like a novel but full of real-life experiences that helps the reader to understand the great responsibilities of social workers.

True Stories!!

As a former child protective services and case worker for seven years in Georgia, I know exactly what Marc Parent and his "kids" have gone through. Although the laws and procedures are different, all CPS workers have to go through the same despair and red tape when we try to protect kids. It is literally impossible to a legal guardian to 40 kids.

Please read this book if you want a true story about child protective services, not some rag of a newspaper.

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