My Child is Gay: How Parents React when They Hear the NewsBryce McDougall Allen & Unwin, 1998 - 193 pages Parents' honest and revealing responses to the news that their child is gay. This book should be of interest to any parent who is struggling with their feelings. The range of responses is enormous, from parents who enjoy their children's friends and lifestyles to others who are extremely distressed, confronted and even angry about their child's decision. Includes a forward by Bryce Courtenay and detailed resource lists of support organizations and available publications. |
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My Child Is Gay: How Parents React When They Hear the News Bryce McDougall Aucun aperçu disponible - 2007 |
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Page v - And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
Page 151 - But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Page 30 - O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
Page 54 - Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears TO-DAY of past Regrets and Future Fears: To-morrow.'— Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
Page v - For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams. You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth. The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far. Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness; For even as he loves the arrow...
Page v - Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
Page 12 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Page 13 - A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another; even as I have loved you, that you also love one another.
Page v - AND A WOMAN who held a babe against her bosom said, Speak to us of Children. And he said: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, And though they are with you yet they belong not to you. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, For they have their own thoughts.
Page 59 - Everybody's Business EARLY in the spring of 1948, an idea began to grow in Greenville, South Carolina. The idea had to do with a lot of things that are talked about all the time — local action, cooperation, community betterment.
Références à ce livre
Intervention with Children and Adolescents: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Paula Allen-Meares,Mark W. Fraser Affichage d'extraits - 2004 |