Title: We don't exactly get the Welcome Wagon
First published: 1998
Description: Drawing on over twenty years of child welfare experience and extensive interviews with 54 gay and lesbian young people who lived in out-of-home-care child welfare settings in three North American cities - Los Angeles, New York, and Toronto - Gerald Mallon presents narratives of marginalized young people trying to find the "right fit.".

The first comprehensive examination of the experiences of gay and lesbian youths in the child welfare system, We Don't Exactly Get the Welcome Wagon makes solid recommendations to social work practitioners as well as to policy makers about how they can provide a competent practice for gay and lesbian adolescents, and offers a methods chapter which will be useful in classroom instruction.
Subjects: Gay teenagers, Child welfare, Homophobia, Institutional care, Jugend, Adolescent, Fallstudiensammlung, Sozialhilfe, Homosexuality, Homosexualitat, Homosexualität, Gay youth
Places: North America
LC classification: HV1449 .M35 1998