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The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care| Media: | Paperback | | Author: | Nina Bernstein | | Publisher: | Vintage | | Release date: | 05 February, 2002 | | List price: | $15.00 |
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The Wisdom to End Foster Care and Orphanages |
| Once read, it might behoove caring persons to consider whether foster care and orphanages are proper environments for children whose parents are living, and whether even extended relatives are preferable to "kennel care" offered to humans, must less "sentenced" to them. In a modern age, if society cannot cope with the problems and the harms that occur with unwanted children, it's possible that we have been traveling down the wrong social path for some time. Examining the extent to which these environments are necessary, and damaging to children, it might be possible that alternative perspectives might provide solutions that are more family friendly, and salvage responsible, rather than to subject children to these emotionally detached and wrenching environments. It's possible we have been delusional for far too long in recognition of the fact that children are not as resilient as we tend to think they are, and that they were provided with two parents for that reason, because they need the protection, love and nurturing of parents, not just adult strangers. If we consider that it is unhealthy for mental health patients to be warehoused (if we can avoid it), why do we do it with children? |
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The Lost Children of Wilder is a historic account of a person's plight to make changes. This book haunts me, because thirty years after the 1973 lawsuit the foster care system still has many changes to be made and the system is still allowing children to fall through the cracks and die. I cry for Shirley Wilder and Lamont. I cry and pray that as a social worker, I can make a difference and not allow children to fall through the cracks.
I'm thankful to Nina Bernstein for dedicating herself to writing a book of this magnitude. With an average 4 ½ star rating, all that consider reading this book should take time away from their lives and read this heartbreaking, but truth be told, story of our nation's short falls. |
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Spellbinding and Depressing |
Nina Bernstein's compelling account of the generations of children trapped in the child welfare system kept me up late turning pages...and gave me nightmares of the thousands and thousands of children who are still churning through an overtaxed foster care system that our society doesn't seem to care about. Still almost every week there's another horror story of an abused or neglected kid that fell through the cracks of the "system."
This is an absolutely amazing, and realistic account, of what long-term public interest litigation is like. The world needs more people like Marcia Robinson Lowry to fight on behalf of kids, and more journalists like Nina Bernstein, willing to put under bright light the shortcomings that our local governments would rather have swept under the rug. |
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