by Jennifer Longo
As usual, this YA novel was written by an older person. But in this case it was written by an adoptive mother tring to explain what it was like for her daughter's experiences in foster care. I'm thinking she did a great job. Yeah, maybe her lead character was a little unrealistic at times, like she'd crammed a lot of characters into one, but it was almost believable.
She'd developed a coping strategy for foster care--don't unpack your suitcase, don't get attached, don't make trouble. And when you eventually age out, be prepared for a rocky road--with no help, no college and no place to live, you're going to be working a lot of entry level jobs to stay off the street.
If nothing else--and don't get me wrong, she wrote a really good and non-preachy book here--this book makes one important point. Don't adopt because you want a kid. it's not about you. Parenting isn't either--don't have a kid just because you want to have one. You don't have a kid--you birth a kid, you feed, teach, train it,you're stuck with it for the rest of your life, but you never really have it. At best, you're entitled to the privilege of watching it grow up until eventually, it realize that it has itself. And then you no longer have it anymore, and that's the point.
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