Reviews tagging 'Bullying'

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

2 reviews

imstephtacular's review

challenging dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Medical content, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Addiction, Domestic abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Racism, Mental illness, Classism, Toxic relationship, and Death

Moderate: Pregnancy, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Suicide attempt, Murder, Eating disorder, Sexual violence, Ableism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Bullying, Suicidal thoughts, Abandonment, Alcohol, Death of parent, Pandemic/Epidemic, and Physical abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Miscarriage, Gun violence, and Racial slurs

kshertz's review

dark informative sad slow-paced

4.0

It’s definitely an informative read but it’s just really heavy. I feel like I went into it thinking I was just gonna hear about this one story of this one family and they are talked about a lot but this author really goes into the systems that create a family like this and while I find that to be super important it wasn’t as interesting. But I did learn a lot of information that I can use as a teacher when thinking about CPS and the bigger systems that play that cause harmful situation is for students. Definitely recommend if you’re in the mood for something really heavy.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Violence, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Murder, Physical abuse, Child death, Lesbophobia, Torture, Toxic relationship, Child abuse, Car accident, and Medical trauma