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No Longer Needed
A Memoir
Did you believe the myth that a woman could have it all?
Something’s got to give.
In “No Longer Needed”, Catherine meets a handsome, charismatic man at a disco, quits her job, travels with him through Mexico, then helps him start a business. What could go wrong?
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Cathrine M. Marshall
About the Author
Catherine Marshall’s creative nonfiction short stories have been featured in anthologies and magazines including the Noyo River Review, Tales of Our Lies, Fostering Families Today, and the Writers of the Mendocino Coast. She resides with her husband in Mendocino, California, where she provides pro bono technical assistance to local nonprofits and serves on the board of directors for the Writers of the Mendocino Coast.
Classics
Earlier Works
The Easter Moose
One Family’s Journey Adopting Through Foster Care
Field Building
Your Blueprint for Creating an Effective and Powerful Social Movement.
Endorsements
Here are a few of readers endorsements
Ms. Marshall has written a riveting book that details her travails adopting two children. Social Services numerous omissions of information, changes of biological parents rights, and failure to support the adoptive family’s needs set the stage for a scary story that, unfortunately, is not fiction but reads like it is.
As a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in adoption, I believe Ms. Marshall’s book is unique but, unfortunately, the story of her adoption experience is not. The country’s adoption policy is broken, wreaking havoc on many adoptive families. My kudus go to Ms. Marshall for her relentless determination to defend her new family.
June Mikkelsen, LMFT
Catherine Marshall’s openhearted and honest account of foster parent adoption is the first authentic report of the truth behind our broken foster care system, which fails young children most in need of parenting. Catherine tells her own story of the doubts, risks, and hopes that go into adoption of troubled foster children, and the morning-after realization of taking on so much more than she ever imagined. Her fair-minded report of her fight for her children’s future somehow comforts my wife Annie and me in our frustration and grief at this system that stripped our foster daughter of her best chance for a good life.
Bill Baker, Former Foster Parent