Another Mother by Sarah Gerstenzang
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.
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 narrativeAlthough 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 and historical child welfare policy and practice. MARTHA M. DORE
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 York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780826515490 |
| ISBN 10 | 0826515495 |
| Title | Another Mother |
| Author | Sarah Gerstenzang |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vanderbilt University Press |
| Year published | 2007-03-19 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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