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S'està carregant… Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection (edició 2020)de Anne Kim (Autor)
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice shortlist As a foster parent, I deal with disconnected teenagers and the problems are myriad. One is that adoptions favor younger children, and most programs are focused on this kids. The other issue is that that by the time the kids are teenagers they have trouble adjusting to changes, the medical diagnosis is "adjustment disorder" which many foster kids have. Even when they are provided with a home and resources that they need, they tend to sabotage themselves and try to return to the lifestyle they had before. There need to be many more resources that focus on the needs of these particular kids, including remedial education and mental health services which are not available. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
"For the majority of young adults today, the transition to independence is a time of excitement and possibility. But 4.5 million young people--or a stunning 11.5 percent of youth aged sixteen to twenty-four--experience entry into adulthood as abrupt abandonment, a time of disconnection from school, work, and family. For this growing population of Americans, which includes kids aging out of foster care and those entangled with the justice system, life screeches to a halt when adulthood arrives. Abandoned is the first-ever exploration of this tale of dead ends and broken dreams. Author Anne Kim skillfully weaves heart-rending stories of young people navigating early adulthood alone, in communities where poverty is endemic and opportunities almost nonexistent. She then describes a growing awareness--including new research from the field of adolescent brain science--that "emerging adulthood" is just as crucial a developmental period as early childhood, and she profiles an array of unheralded programs that provide young people with the supports they need to achieve self-sufficiency. A major work of deeply reported narrative nonfiction, Abandoned joins the small shelf of books that change the way we see our society and point to a different path forward."--Publisher's website.
"A deeply affecting exposé of America's hidden crisis of disconnected youth, in the tradition of Matthew Desmond and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc"-- No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — S'està carregant… GèneresClassificació Decimal de Dewey (DDC)305.2350973Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Age groups AdolescentsLCC (Clas. Bibl. Congrés EUA)ValoracióMitjana:
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