Bibliograph

Denied!, failing Cordelia : parental love and parental-state theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court, Simon Cambridge, Book one

Type

Label

Denied!, failing Cordelia : parental love and parental-state theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court, Simon Cambridge, Book one

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Denied!

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Simon Cambridge

Sub title

failing Cordelia : parental love and parental-state theft in Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court

Summary

The Cankered Rose and Esther's Revenge begins the author's dramatic journey of adopting his teenage daughter with severe attachment issues in Seattle. The heartbreak of then seeing Cordelia "stolen" by the efforts of his former wife and the child-welfare legal complex in Los Angeles, alongside that of the trauma of being denied during efforts to reunify with her are each foreshadowed here. Issues surrounding adoption trauma, parenting children with reactive attachment disorder, and the author's own struggles with Asperger's syndrome will be his constant companions on this perilous journey of adopting, losing, and then trying to reunite with his beloved daughter. In this and subsequent volumes, the author will also be questioning the ability of the child-welfare legal complex and the Los Angeles Juvenile Dependency Court to understand the nature of damaged child attachment or the therapeutic parenting needed to heal children with "special needs." Ultimately, each would be as responsible for "failing Cordelia" as the breaking of the violent waves for the shattering movement of the rocks on the beach

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Cankered rose and Esther's revenge

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