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My Father's Keeper
- The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents
Engelsk Paperback
My Father's Keeper
- The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents
Engelsk Paperback

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My Father''s Keeper is the moving story of Jonathan Silin, a gay man in midlife who learned to care for his elderly parents as a series of life-threatening illnesses forced them to make the difficult transition from being independent to being reliant on their son. Their new needs and unrelenting demands brought them into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a difficult and emotionally fraught relationship.

My Father''s Keeper chronicles the unexpected ways in which the ideas and skills Silin acquired as an early childhood educator, a specialist in life span development, and a compassionate witness to the devastation of the HIV/AIDS crisis came together with his interest in human psychology to deeply inform his thinking about the dramatic changes in his family''s life and increasingly influence his role as his father''s (and mother''s) keeper.

Through the months and years of his parents'' decline, Silin reflects on their history as a family, recalling the pain of his father''s psychological struggles through midlife and the uneasy, imperfect process of accepting his son as a gay man and accepting his son''s partner into the family.

My Father''s Keeper is a book about beginnings and endings, loss and redemption, the ethics of intervention, and the pressing needs of two extremely vulnerable populations.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
184
ISBN-13:
9780807079652
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0807079650
Udg. Dato:
15 maj 2007
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
136mm
Højde:
207mm
Forlag:
Beacon Press
Oplagsdato:
15 maj 2007
Forfatter(e):
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