Taylor Trade Publishing
Pages: 344
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-58979-926-4 • Paperback • July 2014 • $17.95 • (£13.99)
978-1-58979-927-1 • eBook • July 2014 • $9.99 • (£7.99)
Deborah Doucette began her writing career as a freelance journalist, subsequently becoming involved in the issue of grandparents raising grandchildren, providing support groups, and working with the Massachusetts Department of Elder Affairs. In addition to Raising Our Children’s Children, she is the author of a novel, TheForgotten Roses, a blogger for the Huffington Post, and an artist and mother of four. She lives in a small town west of Boston with her red standard poodle, Fiamma (Italian for flame), surrounded by her art and enjoying the comings and goings of her twin grandchildren. She is currently working on a new novel. Her blog can be found at www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-doucette, and her website is www.deborahdoucette.weebly.com.
Dr. Jeff LaCure, PsyD, MSW, LICSW, is a psychologist and social worker who has been a powerful and influential voice in the world of adoption, foster care and child welfare for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of Adopted Like Me, Remembering: Reflections of Growing Up Adopted, and Hormones, Hair Elastics and a Helmet, available on his website www.drjefflacure.com. Dr. LaCure is on the undergraduate and graduate psychology faculty for Cambridge College and the undergraduate psychology faculty for Lasell College. Dr. LaCure is presently completing his most recent book, Answers to the Questions All Adoptive Parents Have. Dr. LaCure currently has clinical offices in Grafton, Webster and Andover, Massachusetts.
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION
A very thoughtful work about an important issue that has received too little attention.
— Barney Frank, former Massachusetts congressman
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION
Great style and readability.
— Liz Carpenter, author of Unplanned Parenthood
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION
Raising Our Children’s Children is a marvelous book for grandparents raising grandchildren and for anyone who is open to learning about families in this situation. I highly recommend this book.
— Dana Burdnell Wilson, Kinship Care Services, Child Welfare League of America, Inc.
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION
In this guidebook for grandparents parenting grandchildren, family therapist LaCure adds therapeutic guidelines to [Doucette’s] informed, empathic case studies.
— Booklist
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION
Well written and moving, this book is recommended not only to grandparents but to all those in social and legal agencies who struggle to find the best solutions for children not being raised by their birthparents. Kinship care is a term we will surely hear more of in the future.
— Library Journal
PRAISE FOR A PREVIOUS EDITION
Raising Our Children's Children is a critically important addition for all community library family studies and parenting reference book collections.
— Midwest Book Review