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008			230707s2024 nyu e b 001 0deng
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020			_a9781668008782 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1668008785 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9781668008799 _q(trade paperback)
020			_a1668008793 _q(trade paperback)
035			_a(OCoLC)1384410651
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092			_aDALEY, M. _bD141
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aDaley, Mark _c(Foster child advocate), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aSafe : _ba memoir of fatherhood, foster care, and the risks we take for family / _cMark Daley.
246	3	0	_aMemoir of fatherhood, foster care, and the risks we take for family
250			_aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtria Books, _c2024.
300			_aviii, 291 pages ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 277-282) and index.
520			_a"A heartrending and unforgettable memoir of an unlikely journey to parenthood through America's broken foster care system. What does it take to keep a child safe? As a long-time strategist and activist fighting for better outcomes for foster children, Mark Daley thought he had the answer. But when Ethan and Logan, an adorable infant and a precocious toddler, entered into their lives, Mark and his husband Jason quickly realized they were not remotely prepared for the uncertainty and complication of foster parenting. Every day seven hundred children enter the foster care system in the United States, and thousands more live on the brink. Safe offers a deeply personal window into what happens when the universal longing for family crashes up against the unique madness and bureaucracy of a child protection system that often fails to consider the needs of the most vulnerable parties of all-the children themselves. Daley takes us on a roller coaster ride as he and Jason grapple with Ethan and Logan's potential reunification with their biological family, learn brutal lessons about sacrifice, acceptance, and healing, and face the honest, heartbreaking, and sometimes hilarious challenges of becoming a parent at the intersection of intergenerational trauma, inadequate social support, and systemic issues of prejudice. For fans of Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know, Stephanie Land's Maid, and Roxanna Asgarian's We Were Once a Family, this touching and suspenseful memoir highlights the impossible choices all parents, in the foster system and beyond, face in raising children today. Safe shines a much-needed spotlight on how this country treats the most vulnerable among us, sounding a vital call to overhaul a thoroughly broken system"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aFoster parents _zUnited States. _9107731
650		0	_aFoster children _zUnited States.
650		0	_aGay-parent families _zUnited States.
650		0	_aFoster home care _zUnited States. _9107730
650		0	_aChild welfare _zUnited States. _944542
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
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