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The boy with the cuckoo-clock heart
Edinburgh, 1874. Born with a frozen heart, Jack is near death when his mother abandons him to the care of Dr. Madeleine--witch doctor, midwife, protector of orphans--who saves Jack by placing a cuckoo clock in his chest. Jack grows up among tear-filled flasks, eggs containing memories, and a man with a musical spine.
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Romania's abandoned children : deprivation, brain development, and the struggle for recovery
Romania's Abandoned Children reveals the heartbreaking toll paid by children deprived of responsive care, stimulation, and human interaction. Compared with children in foster care, the institutionalized children in this rigorous twelve-year study showed severe impairment in IQ and brain development, along with social and emotional disorders.
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Nobody knows
Twelve-year-old Akira must take care of his younger siblings after they are abandoned by their mother and left to fend for themselves in a Tokyo apartment.
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Giving Up Baby
\"Baby safe haven\" laws, which allow a parent to relinquish a newborn baby legally and anonymously at a specified institutional location-such as a hospital or fire station-were established in every state between 1999 and 2009. Promoted during a time of heated public debate over policies on abortion, sex education, teen pregnancy, adoption, welfare, immigrant reproduction, and child abuse, safe haven laws were passed by the majority of states with little contest. These laws were thought to offer a solution to the consequences of unwanted pregnancies: mothers would no longer be burdened with children they could not care for, and newborn babies would no longer be abandoned in dumpsters.
Yet while these laws are well meaning, they ignore the real problem: some women lack key social and economic supports that mothers need to raise children. Safe haven laws do little to help disadvantaged women. Instead, advocates of safe haven laws target teenagers, women of color, and poor women with safe haven information and see relinquishing custody of their newborns as an act of maternal love. Disadvantaged women are preemptively judged as \"bad\" mothers whose babies would be better off without them.
Laury Oaks argues that the labeling of certain kinds of women as potential \"bad\" mothers who should consider anonymously giving up their newborns for adoption into a \"loving\" home should best be understood as an issue of reproductive justice. Safe haven discourses promote narrow images of who deserves to be a mother and reflect restrictive views on how we should treat women experiencing unwanted pregnancy.
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Child Development in Rural China: Children Left Behind by Their Migrant Parents and Children of Nonmigrant Families
Using recent cross-sectional data of rural children aged from 8 to 18 in Hunan Province of China, this article examines psychological, behavioral, and educational outcomes and the psychosocial contexts of these outcomes among children left behind by one or both of their rural-to-urban migrant parents compared to those living in nonmigrant families. The results showed that left-behind children were disadvantaged in health behavior and school engagement but not in perceived satisfaction. The child's psychosocial environment, captured by family socioeconomic status, socializing processes, peer and school support, and psychological traits, were associated with, to varying extent, child developmental outcomes in rural China. These influences largely remain constant for the sampled children regardless of their parents' migrant status.
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Baby
Taking care of a baby left with them at the end of the tourist season helps a family come to terms with the death of their own infant son.
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Scars of War
Scars of War examines the decisions of U.S. policymakers
denying the Amerasians of Vietnam-the biracial sons and daughters
of American fathers and Vietnamese mothers born during the Vietnam
War-American citizenship. Focusing on the implications of the 1982
Amerasian Immigration Act and the 1987 Amerasian Homecoming Act,
Sabrina Thomas investigates why policymakers deemed a population
unfit for American citizenship, despite the fact that they had
American fathers. Thomas argues that the exclusion of citizenship
was a component of bigger issues confronting the Nixon, Ford,
Carter, and Reagan administrations: international relationships in
a Cold War era, America's defeat in the Vietnam War, and a history
in the United States of racially restrictive immigration and
citizenship policies against mixed-race persons and people of Asian
descent. Now more politically relevant than ever, Scars of
War explores ideas of race, nation, and gender in the
aftermath of the Vietnam War. Thomas exposes the contradictory
approach of policymakers unable to reconcile Amerasian biracialism
with the U.S. Code. As they created an inclusionary discourse
deeming Amerasians worthy of American action, guidance, and
humanitarian aid, federal policymakers simultaneously initiated
exclusionary policies that designated these people unfit for
American citizenship.
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The Cruelest of All Mothers: Marie de l'Incarnation, Motherhood, and Christian Tradition
In 1631, Marie Guyart stepped over the threshold of the Ursuline convent in Tours, leaving behind her eleven-year-old son, Claude, against the wishes of her family and her own misgivings. Marie concluded, \"God was dearer to me than all that. Leaving him therefore in His hands, I bid adieu to him joyfully.\" Claude organized a band of schoolboys to storm the convent, begging for his mother's return. Eight years later, Marie made her way to Quebec, where over the course of the next thirty-three years she opened the first school for Native American girls, translated catechisms into indigenous languages, and served some eighteen years as superior of the first Ursuline convent in the New World. She would also maintain, over this same period, an extensive and intimate correspondence with the son she had abandoned to serve God. The Cruelest of All Mothers is, fundamentally, an explanation of Marie de l'Incarnation's decision to abandon Claude for religious life. Complicating Marie's own explication of the abandonment as a sacrifice carried out in imitation of Christ and in submission to God's will, the book situates the event against the background of early modern French family life, the marginalization of motherhood in the Christian tradition, and seventeenth-century French Catholic spirituality. Deeply grounded in a set of rich primary sources, The Cruelest of All Mothers offers a rich and complex analysis of the abandonment.
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