Welcoming Strangers
Subtitle: Nonviolent Re-Parenting of Children in Foster Care
By: Andrew L Fitz-Gibbon
Contributors: Hall Fitz-Gibbon, Jane
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781351295567
Subjects: Foster children; Foster home care; Abused children; Services for; Child welfare; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Sociology; General
Description: "Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon and Andrew Fitz-Gibbon have cared for more than 100 children in a foster care career spanning more than three decades. They developed a method, "loving nonviolent re-parenting," to best care for foster children. "Re-parenting" represents the complex task of caring for children who have been parented already, often inadequately, and mostly involving physical, emotional, and/or systemic violence. Welcoming Strangers analyses the violence foster children suffer and raises ethical questions--why violence is morally problematic, what philosophers have said about human nature and violence, and what moral good should be pursued in childcare. Drawing on an ancient form of ethics, sometimes known as "virtue ethics," this book focuses on the traits required to become a loving, nonviolent re-parent. The Fitz-Gibbons tell of their journey in the foster care system with candour, humour, and grace. Covering subjects as diverse as teens, sex, discipline, and the carer's own well-being, they describe the difficulties of foster care and the sometimes impossible task of restoring dignity and joy to young lives deeply damaged by violence. This book will be of immense help to foster carers, adopters, caseworkers, case managers, policymakers, and any parent who wants to integrate nonviolent practices into the way they care for children."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Responding to a Major Need  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 2 The Multiple Violences Suffered by Children in Care  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 3 Larger Houses, More Children  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 4 Thinking Further about Violence  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 5 Why Re-parenting?  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 6 Teens, Tantrums, Sex, and Substance Abuse  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 7 A Question of Ethics: How Shall We Live?  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 8 The Long Term: Permanence, Adoption, Returning Home, and Keeping in Touch  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 9 Spanking, Discipline, and Nonviolence  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 10 Loving Nonviolent Habits and Virtues  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 11 Second-Hand Shock Syndrome and Caring for Yourself  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter 12 Praxis: Creating a Nonviolent Home with the Ordinariness of Love  -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon; title: chapter Addendum Money Can't Buy Me Love -- Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon Andrew Fitz-Gibbon.