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Before the Best Interests of the Child - Hardcover

Goldstein, Joseph

 
9780029122204: Before the Best Interests of the Child

Synopsis

A lawyer and two child psychologists conclude which circumstances are reasonable grounds for the state intervening between parent and child

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About the Author

Joseph Goldstein has been leading insight and loving-kindness meditation retreats worldwide since 1974. He is a cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) in Massachusetts, where he continues as one of the resident guiding teachers. In 1989, together with several other teachers and students, he established the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies and, later, The Forest Refuge. A seminal figure in the emergence of Buddhism in the West, Joseph is the author of numerous books including One Dharma. He lives in Barre, Massachusetts.

From the Back Cover

Readers may welcome some explanation why our three authors reversed the sequence of events by tackling the problems of beyond the best interest of the child earlier than in 1973 the difficulties and mistakes surrounding children placement loomed so large and so large and clamored so insistently for solution that the questions what and for what reasons these children find thmselves at he mercy of state disposition were pushed into the background.

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