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Thorns Among the Briar Roses: A True Story
Thorns Among the Briar Roses: A True Story
Thorns Among the Briar Roses: A True Story
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This story is a true account of one family's trials and enjoyment of fostering children; some names have been changed to protect the guilty.
Our family didn't choose to foster; fostering was thrust upon us. It was a very gradual process that endured for fifteen years.
The need to tell this story became an obsession and was exacerbated each time I read about adults receiving light sentences for destroying innocent children's lives.
I hope that anyone contemplating fostering will read this and weigh up the consequences of being ill equipped to cope with emotionally unstable humans.
There are good ad bad sides to caring; really caring, for other people's children. The most commonly asked question any foster-parent hears is, "How can you love them, then give them up?"
My standard answer was always the same. If we can show just one child what being loved is all about, even for a short period of time, it will give him or her a dream to follow.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherXlibris AU
Release dateApr 4, 2011
ISBN9781456844585
Thorns Among the Briar Roses: A True Story
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Bette Shiels

Bette Shiels writes from life experiences gained through Australian wide travel, during her 46 years of marriage to her late husband Col, who was a Civil Construction Superintendant. She writes in all genres, fiction and non-fiction, all with strong Australian historical content. Krubi's Dreamtime is her fourth novel and is a sequel to her last book, Mirikata Magic, written due to many requests from avid readers.

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