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This is the true story of Gay Courter's work as a Guardian of the legal powers, responsibilities, and duties her position entailed, of her fierce efforts to ensure that her clients were treated with care and respect, and of the rewards of participating in thie nationwide volunteer program. This book is for anyone who has ever wondered, "What can I do to help?"… (mais)
It was a disturbing, but completely necessary read. Why care about other people’s abused or disadvantaged children? If a blind eye is turned toward the most vulnerable in our society because our children are fed, sheltered, clothed, and loved, then it is unacceptable to complain down the line about that same child being a parasitic criminal mooching off the system we all collectively pay into. At the risk of sounding like a bleeding heart liberal socialist, I’ll own up to the fact that I’d rather help to pay for a child’s education than spend double that imprisoning them to ensure my family’s future safety.
This book sheds light on some unfortunate truths. Abused unloved children grow up angry and powerless. The strength to act out against their misery is often found with a weapon. Couple that with some indiscriminate rage and we are dealing with the repercussions of our dismissive attitudes. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public. - Junius
In this little world where children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice. - Charles Dickens
The solution of adult problems tomorrow depends in large measure upon the way our children grow up today. There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing when we save our children, we save ourselves. - Margaret Mead
For these are all our children . . . We will all profit by, or pay for whatever they become. - James Baldwin
Many things we need can wait, the child cannot. Now is the time his bones are being formed, his blood is being made, his mind is being developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today. - Gabriela Mistral
When will justice come? When those who are not injured become as indignant as those who are. - Leo Tolstoy
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
For Philip, who showed me not only how to care, but to love
For my sons, Blake and Joshua, who taught me how to listen to and respect children
For my mother and father, who made me feel like the most important person in the world
For my guardian children, may all their dreams come true
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The cover story of the July 31, 1988, edition of Parade, "Who Speaks for the Lost Children?" caught my eye. [Preface]
"I have a file here with your name on it," said Lillian Elliott, the district Guardian ad Litem case coordinator, in response to my call.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
And no matter what they become, my greatest hope is that someday, somehow, somewhere each one will remember to renew the license to care for another person in need and pass the legacy on.
This is the true story of Gay Courter's work as a Guardian of the legal powers, responsibilities, and duties her position entailed, of her fierce efforts to ensure that her clients were treated with care and respect, and of the rewards of participating in thie nationwide volunteer program. This book is for anyone who has ever wondered, "What can I do to help?"
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This book sheds light on some unfortunate truths. Abused unloved children grow up angry and powerless. The strength to act out against their misery is often found with a weapon. Couple that with some indiscriminate rage and we are dealing with the repercussions of our dismissive attitudes. (