My Father's Keeper: The Story of a Gay Son and His Aging Parents
Jonathan G. Silin
My Father's Keeper is the moving story of Jonathan Silin, a gay man in midlife who learned to care for his elderly parents as a series of life-threatening illnesses forced them to make the difficult transition from being independent to being reliant on their son. Their new needs and unrelenting demands brought parents and child into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a distant and emotionally fraught relationship.My Father's Keeper chronicles the ways in which the ideas and skills Silin acquired as an early childhood educator, a specialist in life span development, and a compassionate witness to the devastation of the HIV/AIDS crisis came together with his interest in human psychology to deeply inform his thinking about the dramatic changes in his family's life and increasingly influence his role as his father's (and mother's) keeper.
年:
2006
出版商:
Beacon Press
語言:
english
頁數:
183
ISBN 10:
1429469781
ISBN 13:
9781429469784
文件:
PDF, 668 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2006