Turning Stones:Guaranteed to Turn Stones in Your Life

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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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A story to the heart

What would push a mother to throw her children out a window stories above the ground? Marc Parent left me with a bitter sweet feeling. Turning Stones is real, horrifing, comical, and hopeful all at once. Marc Parent describes the days and nights he has spent as a caseworker in New York. He tells horrifing reality of some children's lives and the satifaction he receives from helping them. The love he has for children is overwhelming. Turning Stones is wonderfully written and comes staight from the heart. MJM

Turning Stones Review

This book is very realistic. It puts in perspective what social workers really go through on a daliy basis and the life-saving decisions that they make. Some of the cases that are in the book involve abuse situations, parents who have gone crazy, and parents who are alcholics or drug addicts. The author, Marc Parent, is a social worker and he describes these cases in the book. The facts in this book are very straightforward. None of them are made to sound better than they really are.

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Someone Please Save These Children

The book "Turning Stones" was so emotional, I don't know where to begin. There was so much sadness reading about the defenseless children, so much anger reading about the violence, and so much respect for the caseworkers trying to stop it all. My first reaction to the book was sadness for the children who have to endure the pain of not having the love and support they need from their parent(s). I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would be to grow up not having enough to eat, or not being able to play outside. It is no wonder we have so much violence in schools today; these children are growing up with violence all around them. And yet, we can't put all the blame on the parent(s). The way the stories are told, it makes most of the parents seem like hardworking people who are trying to do the best by their children, but don't have the ability to do so. Something needs to be done to help these children from the lives they are forced into.

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Turning Stones:Guaranteed to Turn Stones in Your Life

Marc Parent writes a frank and highly effective confessional on his years working for the Emergency Children's Services in New York. The stories are accounts, no detail spared of the sad reality that society tries to turn away from. But the language, the accounts, the emotional grasp that this book has on its readers will make you turn away, only to turn back again. You search for answers. You search for comfort in a hateful and tragic world. And when it seems that you can't read any longer, Marc grabs you again because you know he was there. It was his life that turned stones in other children's lives. He had an effect and you can only hope that something you do in your life will have a ounce of the effect that Marc and other social workers have on a daily basis. It is an emotionally roller coaster, but you will feel revived and motivated to make a difference when it is all through. Life is not insignificant and helping just one child or grabbing a sandwich for someone who is hungry is a simple way to start. Parent turned stones in my life and I can only hope that he will flip at the very least, one pebble with his foot, in your life. MC

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The Harsh Reality of Our Kids Today

Marc Parent carefully depicts the reality of children living in some of the most harsh environments and situations. Being a social worker in New York City, he sees things day to day that most of us won't see during the coarse of our lives. Marc tells us very descriptively how he makes these decisions that determine the fate of entire families and the factors that help him to decide. At times you find yourself wondering,"And these are the people who decide who raises my kid?" The brutal hosesty by this author glues the reader to the page. The descriptions make the reader want to read one page over and over again. The children come alive, as the reader wants to reach through the book and save them. The parents at times get the reader's pity, and other times stand at the other end of his rage. This kind of book opens your eyes to a world unknown. Most of us can't even imagine the horror that these children, sometimes three or four years old, experience everyday, but this book makes us realize how important it is that we do. We are the neighbors, friends, co-workers, and family members of these families at risk. The responsibility is our own to report the things we see, and hear, not to just ignore them. This book will ever change my opinion of my role as a citizen. I would challenge all of those who take the "it's none of my business" apprproach to life to read this book. I promise that will change.

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