Ebook The Easter Moose One Family Journey Adopting Through Foster Care Catherine Marshall 9780985056124 Books

Product details Paperback 206 pages Publisher Capbuilders (April 15, 2015) Language English ISBN-10 0985056126

The Easter Moose One Family Journey Adopting Through Foster Care Catherine Marshall 9780985056124 Books Reviews

• There are 400,000 children in foster care in the U.S. In Catherine Marshall’s wonderful and harrowing memoir, The Easter Moose, you will get to know two of them. The book takes the reader on an emotional ride. I exulted in the small victories—camping trips, baking adventures, the first Halloween and Christmas together—and worried with the author through the awful times.
  Whether you plan to adopt or not, whether you have children or not, this is a terrific read. Marshall is a strong, resilient character, and she becomes that kind of mother. Through good times and bad, she perseveres. The writing is filled with wonderful detail about what it is like to wrestle through the adoption system, along with the triumphs and catastrophes that come with raising children already damaged by their past.
  Give yourself a treat—read The Easter Moose.
• In "The Easter Moose" author Catherine Marshall relates the fascinating story of her family's quest to adopt through the foster care system. It is a heartbreaking, heartwarming story of the love and determination needed to withstand what seemingly should be a process supported by the system. As the story unfolded I found myself astonished again and again by facts I never could have imagined, related in just enough detail to make the reality of this experience come alive for me. Anyone interested in foster care/adoption in fact or theoretically would do well to read "The Easter Moose." It is a well balanced blend of the joy and struggles involved in this complex journey.
• I imagined having coffee with Catherine & she was sharing her story with me. She never gave up trying to fix her broken children & fighting for the lives she hoped they could have.
• The Easter Moose, Catherine Marshall's honest and heart-felt memoir of foster adoption, is one of the most important books of the year to the hundreds of families who are so poorly served, even abused, by our social welfare system, and the thousands of children who are misplaced, shunted around, and denied the basic support they need to become successful adults. Catherine's memoir is often hard to read when she tells the truth about the reality of foster adoption and the problems of a support system whose funds are always being cut, with case loads always increasing.
  
  Easter Moose is the story of a family who takes on the challenge of inviting in and raising children damaged by neglect, abandonment, and fetal alcohol syndrome. It is an amazing and heroic story, with challenges, rewards, and disasters that many families never encounter. Catherine tells it like it is, and her recounting of the hard times will resonate with everyone who has taken on the challenge of adoption.
  
  Two things come from this remarkable book. First is the liberating feeling that comes from learning that it was not our fault as foster parents that the adoption failed. Catherine shows us that we were victims of a broken system just as much as the children
  
  Second is an implied call to fix what is supposed to be a system of care for abandoned and needy children, but is in fact a bureaucratic and legalistic nightmare that shuffles broken children into a life of dysfunction, dependence and institutional care or imprisonment. As a community and a nation, we can and must do better. Catherine shows the heart-steps needed to begin that journey.
  
  Read it all the way through and pass it on. Easter Moose is a book to live with.
• This story is very close to home. I raised my two oldest grandchildren that came from alcohol and drug vested homes. I rescued them from going into the Foster Care System. My granddaughter is a lot like Jenny. She started hanging around a questionable crowd, got into Meth and alcohol, and ran away numerous times. I feel Catherine's pain and I feel her joy when she knows that her daughter survived. I recommend this book to anyone who has adopted, raised their grandchildren, or parents. I know I will pass this on to my step-daughter who is raising her adoptive children.
• The Easter Moose resonated with me. I too raised a foster child, and I pushed my way through experiences similar to Catherine's. Her story is helpful to those who have already raised foster children, who are about to, or who are thinking about it. It's also an excellent read for the public in general so they might have a new perspective of the 400,000 foster kids in our country who are waiting to be adopted. They need and deserve our love.
• Catherine Marshall's heartfelt book is a must read for adoptive parents. No, make that all parents. She shares the small joys and grim sorrows with us to better understand the process of fostering and adopting children who have been harmed by their genetics and neglect. Catherine is honest in this book and lets us know the horrows of the so-called social services that deal with this. Thhink of the many other families that have gone through this and think about what can be done about social services for adopted kids who arrive with severe problems.
• The adoption process was a complete unknown to me., before Catherine Marshall introduced me to this convoluted system. . No family wanting to give a child a loving home should have to struggle through such an ordeal. It would drive all but the strongest and most committed couples to abandon their dream and sadly leave some child in the foster care system. This book was informative and interesting.