Raising Our Children''s Children: Room in the Heart

About Deborah Doucette

Deborah Doucette began her writing career as a freelance journalist subsequently becoming involved in the issue of grandparents raising grandchildren providing support groups and working with the Massachusetts Department of Elder Affairs. In addition to Raising Our Childrens Children she is the author of a novel The Forgotten Roses a blogger for the Huffington Post and an artist and mother of four. She lives in a small town west of Boston with her red standard poodle Fiamma (Italian for flame) surrounded by her art and enjoying the comings and goings of her twin grandchildren. She is currently working on a new novel. Her blog can be found at www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-doucette and her website is www.deborahdoucette.weebly.com. Dr. Jeff LaCure PsyD MSW LICSW is a psychologist and social worker who has been a powerful and influential voice in the world of adoption foster care and child welfare for more than twenty-five years. He is the author of Adopted Like Me Remembering: Reflections of Growing Up Adopted and Hormones Hair Elastics and a Helmet available on his website www.drjefflacure.com. Dr. LaCure is on the undergraduate and graduate psychology faculty for Cambridge College and the undergraduate psychology faculty for Lasell College. Dr. LaCure is presently completing his most recent book Answers to the Questions All Adoptive Parents Have. Dr. LaCure currently has clinical offices in Grafton Webster and Andover Massachusetts.