Raised by the Church : Growing up in New York City's Catholic Orphanages / Edward Rohs and Judith Estrine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rohs, Edward, 1946- author.

Estrine, Judith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Institutional care.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Empire State Editions, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1946 Edward Rohs was left by his unwed parents at the Angel Guardian Home to be raised by the Sisters of Mercy. The Sisters hoped that the parents would one day return for him. In time they married and had other children, but Ed's parents never came back for him. And they never signed the legal papers so he could be adopted by another family.Raised by the Church chronicles the extraordinary life of Ed Rohs, a bright, mischievous boy who was raised in five institutions of the Catholic orphanage system in postwar Brooklyn, New York, from infancy in 1946 until he was discharged as an adult in

Contents:

The search for solutions

New York City in the nineteenth century

The twentieth century

The Sisters of Mercy

My earliest years

St. Mary of the Angels

St. John's Home for Boys

St. Vincent's Home for Boys

Growing pains

Alone in the real world

Inventing another new life

Milestones

Reflections.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-4026-6

1-283-42822-9

9786613428226

0-8232-4025-8

0-8232-4024-X

OCLC:

801363543