Troubled A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class

"Rob Henderson, a doctoral candidate in social psychology at Cambridge, reflects on his childhood in foster care, how he narrowly escaped a broken system, and the only hope for disenfranchised kids across America: family"--

Info autore

Rob Henderson grew up in foster homes in Los Angeles and the rural town of Red Bluff, California. He joined the US Air Force at the age of seventeen. Once described as "self-made" by The New York Times, Rob subsequently received a BS from Yale University and a PhD in psychology from St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and more. His weekly newsletter is sent to more than fifty thousand subscribers. Learn more at RobKHenderson.com.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rob Henderson, Rob Henderson
• Editore: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 04.02.2025
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
• EAN: 9781982168544
• ISBN: 978-1-9821-6854-4
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.7 x 20.8 x 2.2 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 249 g
• Categorie: Adoption, Trauma, Cambridge, United States Air Force, Coming of age, Yale, Values, Capitalism, Marriage, Jail, White Trash, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, family, Science, Class, Memoirs, Nonfiction, Military, Social Mobility, Poverty, Air Force, conservative, divorce, Addiction, Social, group or collective psychology, higher education, Working Poor, Social Justice, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Attachment, Found Family, family secrets, Virtue Signaling, nineties, siblings, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Privilege, Incarceration, Income Inequality, class mobility, Generational Trauma, economic disparity, opioids, Social welfare, social policy and social services, nuclear family, Blue Collar, 90s, difficult childhood, behavioral development, breaking the cycle, Military Memoir, liberal elite, the other wes moore, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, foster system, foster care memoir, young republicans, elite colleges and universities, Warrior Scholar Project, Gates-Cambridge Scholarship, luxury beliefs, unstable childhood, someone has led this child to believe