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Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker

Jessica Pryce - Amistad
Format: Hardcover

"It's an invaluable insider account of a pressing social issue." - Publishers Weekly Joining the ranks of Evicted and The New Jim Crow, a former caseworker's searing, clear-eyed investigation of the child welfare system - from foster care to incarceration - that exposes...
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The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

Jonathan Haidt - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

From New York Times bestselling coauthor of The Coddling of the American Mind,an essential investigation into the collapse of youth mental health - and a plan for a healthier, freer childhood. After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged...
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Momma Cusses: A Field Guide to Responsive Parenting & Trying Not to Be the Reason Your Kid Needs Therapy

Gwenna Laithland - St. Martin's Essentials
Format: Paperback

Join the millions of fans who love Momma Cusses, TikTok's #1 Parenting Unexpert!. There are lots of experts out there who will tell you they have the magic recipe to raising perfect humans. Gwenna Laithland is not one of them. She's one of us. Frustrated, overwhelmed, and exhausted....
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Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions: Get the Most Out of Your Retirement and Medical Benefits

Joseph Matthews Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Your complete guide to Social Security retirement and medical benefits The rules for claiming Social Security benefits have changed. Find out if you can still choose between your own benefits and spousal benefits. Learn this and more with Social Security, Medicare & Government Pensions...
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Estate Planning Basics

Denis Clifford Attorney - NOLO
Format: Paperback

Estate planning, in plain EnglishThis book provides concise, straightforward, and easy to read information about the major components of estate planning - without going into endless detail about arcane options that apply only to the wealthy. Topics include:Wills. Why you need one, how to make...
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Parenting at the Intersections: Raising Neurodivergent Children of Color

Jaya Ramesh - Chicago Review Press
Format: Paperback

"This is an invaluable, nuanced, and deeply needed guide to parenting diverse children as we move, together, toward a future in which all brains and bodies are supported - and belong." - Jessica McCabe, How to ADHD. What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part...
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What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices

Melissa Guida-Richards - North Atlantic Books
Format: Paperback

The White Fragility for transracial adoption--practical tools for nurturing identity, unlearning white saviorism, and fixing the mistakes you don't even know you're making. If you're the white parent of a transracially or internationally adopted child, you may have been told...
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Roar: into the second half of your life (before it's too late)

Michael Clinton - Atria Books/Beyond Words
Format: Paperback

Discover how to make the second half of your life happy and productive with this perceptive and inspiring guidebook that will help you achieve your dreams and get more out of life - whether or not retirement is in your future plans.. We are living in a time when everyone is constantly reassessing...
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High Five Discipline: Positive Parenting for Happy, Healthy, Well-Behaved Kids

Candice Jones - American Academy of Pediatrics
Format: Paperback

When confronting the challenge of disciplining their children, moms and dads often default to the ways their own parents disciplined them, sometimes with harmful results. In High Five Discipline, mom and practicing pediatrician Dr. Candice Jones shows parents a better way. Dr. Jones coaches...
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Your Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss: Hope and healing when you're no longer expecting

Dr. Kate White M.D.M.P.H. - Mayo Clinic Press
Format: Paperback

In Your Guide to Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss, Kate White, M.D., OB/GYN, miscarriage survivor, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Boston University School of Medicine and Vice Chair of Academics in the OB/GYN department at Boston Medical Center, combines the latest...
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