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Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's Story

Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk: A Caseworker's StoryAuthor: Marc Parent
Creator: Anna Quindlen
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 50,260

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.2

ISBN: 0449912353
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.768092
EAN: 9780449912355
ASIN: 0449912353

Publication Date: January 27, 1998
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Condition: Book shows a small amount of wear to cover and binding. Some pages show signs of use. Sail the Seas of Value.

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Amazon.com Review
Marc Parent worked for four years as a caseworker for Emergency Children's Services in New York, acting as the final protector of children from abusive parents, as "the one on the front line--the last hope for a kid in trouble." His job was to make house calls and decide if a child needed to be removed at once. He has selected eight cases illustrating the extreme pressures of the work and indicating why it is that the system so often fails in its mission. He recounts unsparingly how three years into his job he made a fatal mistake, failing to recognize the plight of a little boy who later died of starvation. This compelling account is an important documenting of the weaknesses of the child support system.

Product Description
Why does an infant die of malnutrition? Why does an eight-year-old hold a knife to his brother's throat? Or a mother push her cherished daughter twenty-three floors to her death? Marc Parent, a city caseworker, searched the streets--and his heart--for the answers, and shares them in this powerful, vivid, beautifully written book.

WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR



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