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Book SynopsisBased on Deborah Doucette’s personal experience raising a grandchild, this book examines the myriad factors involved in kinship care, specifically when grandparents begin to raise their grandchildren. Filled with true stories from people who have raised their children’s children, and including advice from Dr. Jeffrey R. LaCure throughout, this family-focused book looks at this fairly common relationship from all sides. Now in its second edition, Raising Our Children’s Children has been updated to include recent social developments, such as the trend toward multigenerational family living where children, their parents, and their grandparents all live under one roof.
Trade ReviewPRAISE 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 *
