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BL
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1005244
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b759614
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| Main Entry
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Silin, Jonathan G.
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| Title & Author
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My father's keeper : : the story of a gay son and his aging parents /\ Jonathan G. Silin.
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| Publication Statement
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Boston :: Beacon Press,, ©2006.
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xvii, 164 pages ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0807079642
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: 0807079650
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: 9780807079645
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: 9780807079652
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| Contents
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New responsibilities -- Out of control -- The future in question -- Psychic reality -- Reading, writing, and the wrath of my father -- Unspoken subjects -- The other side of silence -- My father, his psychiatrists, and me -- Coda.
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| Abstract
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"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 them into intimate daily contact and radically transformed what had been a difficult and emotionally fraught relationship."
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"My Father's Keeper chronicles the unexpected 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." "Through the months and years of his parents' decline, Silin reflects on their history as a family, recalling the pain of his father's psychological struggles through midlife and the uneasy, imperfect process of accepting his son as a gay man and accepting his son's partner into the family."
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"My Father's Keeper is a book about beginnings and endings, loss and redemption, the ethics of intervention, and the pressuring needs of two extremely vulnerable populations."--Jacket.
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| Subject
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Adult children of aging parents-- United States, Biography.
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Aging parents-- Care-- United States.
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Caregivers-- United States, Biography.
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Gay men-- United States-- Family relationships.
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Sons-- Family relationships-- United States.
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Aidants naturels-- États-Unis, Biographies.
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Enfants adultes de parents âgés-- États-Unis, Biographies.
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Fils-- États-Unis-- Relations familiales.
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Homosexuels masculins-- États-Unis-- Relations familiales.
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Parents âgés-- Soins-- États-Unis.
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Adult children of aging parents.
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Aging parents-- Care.
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Caregivers.
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Gay men-- Family relationships.
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Sons-- Family relationships.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.8740973
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| LC Classification
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HQ1064.U5S536 2006
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