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Authors: John Houghton. A Forever Family. Title: A Forever Family. Binding: Paperback. Weight: 222 Gms.

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After John Houghton and his wife learned that they could not have children of their own they adopted three siblings, two boys and a girl, who were looking for 'a forever family', as the adoption agencies put it. What followed is all too common in adoptive families, but it is rarely talked about in public and has never been described with such transparent honesty as it is in the pages of this remarkable book. From the start, the children were difficult, but the scale of their problems only gradually became clear as the years went by. Strange fears and tantrums were accompanied by much more disturbing kinds of behaviour; the violence and rejection that the children had suffered were visited on their adoptive parents unpredictably and explosively. This is a story of desperate wanting, of anger and frustrated love. It is written with a kind of plain clarity that is both restrained and emotionally powerful. There is no triumphant victory over pain and loss, but there is, in the end, something like hope - a testament to the difference that two decent people can make by sustaining their commitment to an impossible situation.

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Faber & Faber
ISBN-13
9780571227792
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Subject Area
Children & Family
Author
Michael Jones
Publication Name
A Forever Family
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

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197mm
Item Width
126mm
Item Weight
217g

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Michael Jones
Topic
Memorials
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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