A Breath Away  From The Right Decision
By Van C. Sher

 A MUST READ! Van C. Sher writes candidly about life with his drug addicted son and his quest to both save his son and grandchild. So Poignant and real it took my  own breath away.
 
 

 
Brown, David.  The Guardianship Book:  How to Become a Child's Guardian in California. 2nd ed.Berkeley, CA:; Nolo Press, 1997. 

Children of Incarcerated Parents.; New York: Lexington Books, 1995.  (includes a chapter on grandparents raising grandchildren) 

Curtis, Jill.  Making and Breaking Families: The Way Ahead for Parents and their Children.  Free Association Books: September 1998. (See review below) 

De Toledo, Sylvie.Grandparents as Parents: A Survival Guide for Raising a Second Family. New York: Guilford Press, 1995. 

Delaney, Richard J. Ph.D. RAISING CAIN: Caring for Troubled Youngsters / Repairing Our Troubled System of Care (see review below) 

Delaney, Richard J Ph.D. and Kunstal, Frank R., Ed.D  Troubled Transplants (see review below) 

Doucette-Dudman, Deborah. Raising Our Children's Children  Minneapolis, MN: Fairview Press, 1996. 

Fay, Jim.Grandparenting With Love and Logic: Practical  Solutions to Today's Grandparenting Challenges. Golden, CO: Love and Logic Press, 1994. (includes chapter on raising grandchildren) 

Gardner,Richard Dr., The Parental Alienation Syndrome

Keck, Gregory C, Ph.D. and Kupecky, Regina M., L.S.W .Adopting The Hurt Child 
(see review below) 

Kornhaber, Arthur. Contemporary Grandparenting. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. 

Minkler, Meredith. Grandmothers as Caregivers: Raising Children of the Crack Cocaine Epidemic Newbury Park, CA: Sage,1993. 

McCutcheon, John  Happy Adoption Day!  Illustrated by Julie Paschkis, Published by Little Brown and Company (please visit our Kids Books Page)

Sonder,Ben DANGEROUS LEGACY: The Babies of Drug-Taking Parents 

Takas, Marianne.Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Guide to Finding Help and Hope.  Crystal Lake, IL:  National Foster Parent Association, 1995. 

Truly, Traci. Grandparents Rights:With Forms. Clearwater, FL: Sphinx Pub., 1995. 

Westheimer,Ruth Dr.and Kaplan, Steven Dr. Grandparenthood 

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Grandparenthood 

By Dr. Dr. Ruth Westheimer 
and 
Dr. Steven Kaplan 

One Of America's Most Trusted Voices Offers Valuable Insights Into A Rewarding And Complex Relationship

For years Dr. Ruth Westheimer has been counseling Americans on how to foster and maintain our most intimate relationships. Now she turns her attention to the role of grandparent in Grandparenthood, her unique, comprehensive guide that will help men and women of all ages and backgrounds develop a more rewarding bond with their children's children. Grandparenthood arrives from Routledge just in time for National Grandparent's Day.

Employing the characteristic blend of expertise, sound advice, and encouragement that has made her one of today's most trusted dispensers of wisdom, Dr. Ruth shows grandparents how to take advantage of their unique position to help enrich their own lives as well as the lives of the grandchildren -- and not feel overwhelmed in the process. Covering a host of general topics, including how to establish a relationship, manage visits, plan new and unusual activities, and make proper decisions when it comes to gift giving, Dr. Ruth also addresses the increasingly common situations of divorce, non-traditional and multi-cultural families, and what happens when the grandparent becomes the parent. She also pays special tribute to grandfathers, a largely neglected but increasingly important figure in every child's life. 

As Dr. Ruth points out, being a grandparent involves not just one, but a series of relationships -- with your grandchildren, children, spouse, and in-laws -- each with its own complexities. Here, she speaks to grandparents of all ages and situations offering sympathetic advice for those uncomfortable with their new role, as well as for those who welcome every opportunity for involvement in their grandchildren's lives.

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RAISING CAIN: Caring for Troubled Youngsters / Repairing Our Troubled System of Care 

Society challenges its foster and adoptive parents to raise children who have extraordinary emotional and behavioral problems, children marked by their past, children whose futures look grim unless they receive help. RAISING CAIN offers a tested format and intervention strategies to not only raise these children, but to raise them well. It challenges certain systemic failures that neglect the best interests of foster and adoptive children. It protests, confronts, and raises Cain" about fundamental, but reparable, flaws in our present day system of care. 

#5371 ... $17.95 (Paperback, 120 pages, 1997) 

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TROUBLED TRANSPLANTS 

by Richard J. Delaney, Ph.D. and Frank R. Kunstal, Ed.D. 

This book presents practical—if unconventional—treatment strategies for addressing the puzzling and exhausting problems sometimes seen in foster and adopted children. These unique approaches can breathe life into children, soften their defenses, sidestep endless power struggles, and alter their distorted views. TROUBLED TRANSPLANTS provides strategies and insights for the adoptive family dealing with children who are exhibiting behavior difficulties. 

#3468 ... $16.95 (Paperback, 169 pages, 1997) 

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DANGEROUS LEGACY: The Babies of Drug-Taking Parents 

by Ben Sonder 

In the late 1980s, a social worker noticed similarities in the symptoms exhibited by many newborns—they would cry continuously, were inconsolable, and they would jump at the slightest noise. What was the cause? Just a few years ago, researchers discovered that these children had been born to women who had used crack during their pregnancies. DANGEROUS LEGACY examines the consequences of maternal substance abuse, including not only crack, but also alcohol, cocaine, opiates, tobacco and marijuana. 

#4332 ... $23.60 (Hardcover, 96 pages, 1994) 

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DANGEROUS LEGACY 

TABLE OF CONTENTS 

The Special Case of Drugs in America 

Drugs and Children 

Cocaine and Crack: The Epidemic and Its Consequences 

Opiates: The Baby Addicts 

Alcohol: The Brain-Cell Destroyer 

Tobacco and Marijuana: Legal Does Not Mean Safe 

The Father Connection 

Solutions 

Epilogue 

Source Notes 

Appendix: Helpful Places 

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ADOPTING THE HURT CHILD 

by Gregory C. Keck, Ph.D. and Regina M. Kupecky, L.S.W. 

Adopting special needs children entails much frustration and heartache. A parent often has to deal with past emotional and physical atrocities, interruptions in parent-child bonding cycles, losses felt by the adopted child, and the inappropriate behaviors of unattached children. ADOPTING THE HURT CHILD is a frank and poignant portrayal of the sad and often brutal reality of adoption. But more importantly, it is a source of valuable information, hope and inspiration for adoptive and foster parents, therapists, teachers, social workers, and all others whose lives interact with these children. 

#1155 ... $20.00 (Hardcover, 250 pages, 1995) 

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Making and Breaking Families - the Way Ahead for Parents and their Children 

by Jill Curtis 

This book written by a  psychotherapist (and a grandmother) looks at the different constellations which make up the family today.  She places grandparents firmly in the centre of family life - and pays attention to those grandparents who have taken on the task of parenting, not grandparenting, but parenting their children's children.  A task, she observes, which is always done with love, but often with a heavy heart as money and energy often run out the second time around. 

Jill Curtis looks at the importance of grandparents for children, particularly if their parents are not living together.  Grandparents who are denied contact with their grandchildren are not forgotten, and we hear from the grandparents, often in their own words, as they speak of the joys and woes of being a grandparent. 

The family is  alive and well, but often in a different form from the one we grew up in. 

While this book is not currently available at our bookstores, you can get it from Amazon.com, or CherryValley may be able to order it for you.  A great book for anyone, especially those working in social services roles and wanting a perspective on what grandparents are going through today.