Describe your new book. Oddfellow's Orphanage is a series of stories/vignettes that tell the tale of the newest arrival to a curious orphanage, a...
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I dare you to read this book and not be inspired to help this overlooked population. This book is so well written, researched, and chock-full of incredible and heart wrenching true stories, that it is hard to put down. A mind boggling subject with extraordinarily far-reaching social implications is explored thoroughly and compassionately; then in the last chapter, there are actually strong ideas and suggestions on how to implement changes in a system that has so many children bound to a life without parents, so many family caregivers bound to poverty and government intervention in their lives, and so many parents losing the one relationship in their lives that could actually create some motivation and cohesion for their future. I recommend this book to EVERYONE - In my opinion, it should be required reading.
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amanda, May 5, 2006
I dare you to read this book and not be inspired to help this overlooked population. This book is so well written, researched, and chock-full of incredible and heart wrenching true stories, that it is hard to put down. A mind boggling subject with extraordinarily far-reaching social implications is explored thoroughly and compassionately; then in the last chapter, there are actually strong ideas and suggestions on how to implement changes in a system that has so many children bound to a life without parents, so many family caregivers bound to poverty and government intervention in their lives, and so many parents losing the one relationship in their lives that could actually create some motivation and cohesion for their future. I recommend this book to EVERYONE - In my opinion, it should be required reading.(8 of 12 readers found this comment helpful)