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  • When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

  • Written by: Mary Evelyn Greene
  • Narrated by: Mary Beth Garber
  • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
  • 3.5 out of 5 stars (2 ratings)

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When Rain Hurts: An Adoptive Mother's Journey with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

Written by: Mary Evelyn Greene
Narrated by: Mary Beth Garber
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When Rain Hurts is the story of one mother’s quest to find a magical path of healing and forgiveness for her son, a boy so damaged by the double whammy of prenatal alcohol abuse and the stark rigors of Russian orphanage life that he was feral by the time of his adoption at age three. Bizarre behaviors, irrational thoughts, and dangerous preoccupations were the norm - no amount of love, it turns out, can untangle the effects of fetal alcohol syndrome.

More people are coping with and caring for those affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorders than individuals living with autism, but because there is a stigma associated with this preventable, devastating birth defect, it is a pandemic of disability and tragedy that remains underreported and underexplored. When Rain Hurts puts an unapologetic face to living and coping with this tragedy while doggedly searching for a more hopeful outcome for one beautiful, innocent, but damaged little boy.
©2013 Red Hen Press (P)2018 Red Hen Press
Biographies & Memoirs Children's Health Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships
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If I was considering adoption I sure as hell would not adopt after reading this book. one truth hit home though DON'T DRINK ALCOHOL IF YOU MIGHT BE PREGNANT! I was hoping to read more about handling FASD but FASD was the least of this boys problems. Peter was lucky that this mother chose him as no mother could have done more than this one.

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