Raising gentle men
Subtitle: lives at the orphanage edge
By: Jay Sullivan
Publisher: Apprentice House, Loyola University Maryland
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781934074817
Subjects: Orphanages; Orphans; Boys; Institutional care; Teacher-student relationships; Social conditions; Alpha Boys' School (Kingston, Jamaica)
Description: For more than 100 years, a small band of nuns have run Alpha Boys School in Kingston, caring for the abandoned, abused and delinquent boys of Jamaica. From 1984-1986, they allowed the author to share their world. He was one of many people during those years who lived on the periphery of the boys' lives, trying to help, and trying to understand. He saw the relationships the boys built with each other, which kept them from being completely alone in the world. Whether from the inside or the out, they all lived at the orphanage edge.