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Author Gold, Deborah, author.

Title Counting Down : a Memoir of Foster Parenting and Beyond / Deborah Gold, Michael M
Published Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018

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Contents Machine generated contents note: I. Foster Family's Initiation -- Zero to One Hundred -- Questions -- II. Learning the Road -- DSS: Department of Social Services -- Dry Creek Drive: The Highway to Hell, essay / Michael -- Poem of Hell on Earth, poem / Michael -- Counting Down: Reunification -- Pickup Line -- Gel Pens -- In a Prison, essay / Michael -- What's in Your Toolbox? poem / Michael -- Fork in the Road, essay / Michael -- Cleaning Up for DSS -- She Said Yes -- Shepherd's Way, essay / Michael -- III. Reading around the Curves -- Cody -- Fast and the Furious, or Other Visions of Cody -- IV. Door to Door, House to House -- Halloween, essay / Michael -- Hallowtide -- Uncle Jonah, essay / Michael -- Make It Stop Now, poem / Michael
Summary When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 24, 2018)
Subject Gold, Deborah -- Family
SUBJECT Gold, Deborah (Pseudonym) -- Family
Gold, Deborah -- Family. cct
Subject Foster home care -- Appalachian Region
Foster parents -- Appalachian Region
Foster children -- Appalachian Region
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Adoption & Fostering.
Foster home care -- Appalachian Region.
Families
Foster children
Foster home care
Foster parents
Appalachian Region
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Form Electronic book
Author M., Michael, author
ISBN 9780821446188
0821446185