My father's keeper
Subtitle: the story of a gay son and his aging parents
By: Jonathan G. Silin.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
Subjects: Adult children of aging parents -- United States -- Biography; Caregivers -- United States -- Biography; Aging parents -- Care -- United States; Gay men -- United States -- Family relationships; Sons -- United States -- Family relationships
Genres: Biography.
Description: "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 pressuring needs of two extremely vulnerable populations."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: New responsibilities; title: Out of control; title: The future in question; title: Psychic reality; title: Reading, writing, and the wrath of my father; title: Unspoken subjects; title: The other side of silence; title: My father, his psychiatrists, and me; title: Coda.