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    Imperfect Family: Setting Free Skeletons of Kinship Neglect
    Imperfect Family: Setting Free Skeletons of Kinship Neglect
    Imperfect Family: Setting Free Skeletons of Kinship Neglect
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    Imperfect Family: Setting Free Skeletons of Kinship Neglect

    By Leyland A King

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    Time spent with your children is precious. Just being at home regularly and talking about
    whatever, is suffi cient for the emotional development and comfort of every member of
    the family. Just talk.
    Th is family saga is about an ordinary familys cohesiveness, strength, ambition and
    determination that made it possible for within one generation to climb the slippery,
    ramshackle ladder from deprivation to the security of American middle-class. The
    story accentuates what has been said by many others, that poverty is more a matter of
    perception and relativity; that with understanding ones situation thoroughly, one might
    fi nd a way from victim to mastery through right thinking, right actions and reciprocity.
    Th e author is not seeking to assert that everyone can bootstrap a way out of poverty. Th ere
    are places and situations so bereft of opportunities, where poverty is so abject, it will be
    a travesty to even suggest that behaviors on their part could lift them out.
    With Several years of experience as a Commissioned police offi cer and a second career
    as a Child Protective Investigations Program Administrator, the author, having visited
    the homes of thousands of families, interviewing many, many more individuals, has
    come to believe what for some is already known at an intellectual level, that there are no
    perfect families.
    Th rough education and specifi c training, Mr. King has been able to identify the kind of
    value system, foreign and local that contribute to inter-generational abuse and neglect of
    children. He hypothesizes, based on impressionistic information available to him, that
    Plantocracy, its highest values being Control, Obedience, Punishment and Docility, is
    probably the dominant source of faulty thinking, that may lead to abusive behaviors and
    consequences, physical and psychological, for families multiple generations removed.
    But the work is neither pedantic nor judgmental in addressing external, detrimental
    factors that bind one to calamitous outcomes. Alcohol abuse and dependency,
    extravagancy, gender imbalance are all portrayed experientially.
    Th roughout the book there are repeated examples of the importance of fi lial duties,
    retention of virtues and some travails brought upon oneself when his control is casually
    surrendered to another. Exploitation is seen for what it is and discussed without rancor.
    Th ere is much to enjoy as the readers imagination goes for a ride with folklore, myths
    and adventure expressed as humorously as ever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateDec 8, 2015
    ISBN9781514428726
    Imperfect Family: Setting Free Skeletons of Kinship Neglect
    Author

    Leyland A King

    Leyland A. King was superintendent of Police (Fmr.), Child Protective Investigations Program Administrator (Ret.) and holds a master's degree in mental health counseling and agency development fromTroy State University.He is also a Certified Public Manager (CPM). Mr. King resides with his family in Florida, USA. Mr. King may be contacted through his blog, BlueGadfly.com.

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