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Dawn Stefanowicz

Out From Under: The Impact of Homosexual Parenting Paperback – August 31, 2007

by Dawn Stefanowicz (Author), S. Quick (Author), Herman Goodden (Editor),

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Dawn Stefanowicz knows from personal experience that the environment in which a child is raised matters. Her story delivers a gripping, no-holds-barred account of what it was like to grow up with a homosexual father and a chronically ill and passive mother. Transparently, candidly, yet respectfully, Dawn raises the blinds on a home shrouded in secrecy, conflict, confusion, and abuse. Through her experiences, she offers hope and encouragement to those from similar backgrounds and a broader understanding of how various family forms and living arrangements can affect children throughout their lives.

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245 pages
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Annotation Pr
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August 31, 2007
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6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches
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1599770113
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978-1599770116
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Dawn Stefanowicz is an author, public speaker, media spokesperson, licensed professional accountant, and home educator. She recently addressed the Canadian Senate on hate crime legislation and appeared on EWTN. Dawn has been married for twenty-three years and has two children. She advocates for children, families, and society, pertaining to marriage, parenting, sexuality, and education issues. Dawn is a resource to family, legislative, medical, research, and scholastic organizations.

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Publisher : Annotation Pr (August 31, 2007)
Language : English
Paperback : 245 pages
ISBN-10 : 1599770113
ISBN-13 : 978-1599770116
Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
Dimensions : 6.25 x 0.75 x 9.25 inches

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Doves Eyes

insightful, honest and graphic story of overcoming child sexual abuse through faith in Jesus.

Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2015

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I'm grateful that Dawn wrote this book. It is extremely graphic and left me with pictures in my mind I did not want. The best part is the ending as her faith in Jesus enabled her to move on and find a healing and a new life. I am grateful that she is a voice for all those who have grown up in homes with sexual dysfunction and abuse. Her story is amazing so it does bring hope even though it's painful to read.

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Bookworm

it is somewhat disgusting in some of the details

Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2016

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This is a story that needs to be read! Yes, it is somewhat disgusting in some of the details, but it is a true account, and the truth needs to be heard. What pain and emotional heartache is wrought when people choose their own selfish (and perverted) desires over their family/children. I applaud Dawn for rendering the truth in an honest, straightforward account, and for forgiving her Father and being there for him even though he was not physically or emotionally there for her, her siblings or their Mother. It is a miracle that she has made such progress mentally, and emotionally after what she and her family endured. A true testament to God's unfailing love and grace.

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A vivid testimony of the damage done to voiceless children who are raised within a same-sex relationship

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2013

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Dawn gives us a first hand, fly on the wall, view of living with a same-sex attracted father and the psychological and emotional ramifications for a young girl growing up with the awareness that her father was living a double life. While in this case, the issue so affecting her was her father's many "boy toys" and his negligence of her mother and his family. This book also highlights the importance of the role of father for the stable development of his children.

I was also impressed with Dawn's expression of her great love for her father and her heroic efforts to understand him despite her feelings of neglect and hurt.

Thanks for her courage, others may seek help and move towards healing and reconciliation, with themselves and those they love.

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M. Smith

An all too vivid account of the author's life as ...

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2015

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An all too vivid account of the author's life as a child in a home that would give the Addams Family a run for which is the most depraved. I think the author could have left out a few of the more graphic scenes because most adults reading this will 'get the picture' without having to actually have the picture painted for them. After all, once a mental picture has been formed, it is often quite difficult to forget it. The account makes a very strong case against the current, avant garde notion that homosexuals and lesbians are capable of normal parenting, all while engaging in perverse acts which one can only think degrade their own spirits let alone those of their children.

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Amara Talan

A Fascinating Book

Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2015

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This is a fascinating book. It shows, in graphic detail, the life of a young woman and her siblings amid two people whose parenting skills can only be described as extremely poor. Apart from the homosexual element, this shows blatant child abuse in all ways; sexual, psychological and emotional. As a result, it does raise questions around the moral effectiveness of gay parenting. However even if it is not an indictment against homosexual family life in general, it is an important insight into the realism of child abuse, ignorance and the results of total a devil-may-care attitude towards parenthood.

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two and a half stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2016

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My pet peeve with books is all the stuff at the beginning--I'd much rather jump right into the story. There's a Foreword, Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction. Then, at the end--Epilogue, Afterword, About the Author, Endnotes. I think of these as "fillers" that take up pages, leaving a very thin book without them. I don't read the fillers, it's annoying. Authors stories used to be religiously edited by the, well, editor...now, the reader has to do it. It's narrative style, rough around the edges, but she doesn't hold back. She just lifts the top of her head off, and tells strangers all her naked, dark memories. This took a lot of courage, but she leaves nothing out. I bought it because MassResistance said it was a "powerful" story, recommended reading. Well, I wasn't able to stomach delving into her life, and the details of abuse. By the 3rd chapter, I had to stop, and skipped ahead to the end. I support those on the front lines of the fight against the gay agenda, but I don't need to see or read the evil that they do. She often assumes to know what her mother thinks or feels, and I thought it was odd that throughout the book, she capitalizes the word "dad" but not the word "mother." I agree that adult children of gays should step forward and tell the world that their lives weren't rainbows, but it's a two-edged sword. I don't want the dirty details of the lives of strangers in my head, yet I know that some of it is necessary to drive back the lies fed to us by a community that spits it out like mud from spinning tires. If you truly believe that children of same sex partners are well adjusted, then read this book. If you believe it's just one persons story, I dare you to find any proof or study of well adjusted children of same sex parents--it's not out there. I'm sorry to have spent 7 bucks on a book I'll never finish, but then, I couldn't finish reading "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," either. The truth is often sickening.

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Teeta

I highly recommend this book

Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2015

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Very insightful regarding the experiences of a family with a homosexual husband and father. It was encouraging to see how God has brought the author healing and hope. I highly recommend this book.

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Julia Nielsen

powerful story

Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2014

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Dawn's story was heartbreaking, unnerving, yet powerful and faith-affirming. I ached reading the abuse she suffered through, the selfishness of both her parents, and the incredible love she still felt for her father. This must have been a very difficult story to write but with it comes healing and peace. Thank you for sharing this very personal memoir of your life Dawn. God bless you.

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Rich Sewell

Extraordinary!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 17, 2015

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An extraordinarily frank and yet heart-wrenchingly candid, insightful account of a woman's life growing up in the face of extreme adversity... - in a profoundly dysfunctional "family". As a reborn Christian, a heterosexual male without any first-hand knowledge or experience of this "lifestyle", I found Dawn's story shone a light into what might be described as [after reading her story] a real darkness of this world - and yet she has done it with a loving compassion that allows me to wholeheartedly encourage others to read about this "masked" aspect of the broken world we live in. Thanks to Dawn I am able to perhaps understand a little more fully now...

Out From Under is, in my view, an eye-watering reflection of Dawn and her family’s life in the midst of terrible confusion and suffering, perpetrated by her father. In spite of the (modern) current “gay-agenda” suggesting or even insisting that it is only looking to secure the rights of two people, in reality it seems that this is virtually never only about two people but has disastrously wide implications for children, family and indeed a seemingly ever increasing circle of other people too, perhaps not least of all because of the incredible promiscuity that she describes about this “lifestyle”. This becomes abundantly clear when reading Dawn’s book!

It was encouraging to near the end of this book and to read some of the last-words from her repentant father:
"Dawn, He’s all we need, Jesus is all we need. I love Him beyond words. He, Jesus, broke my bondage and set me free. He gave me a starving hunger for His Spirit. I need Him so very much. I must close to get this in the mail. Your dad in Christ. XXOO.”

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Connie

Very informative read

Reviewed in Canada on August 19, 2018

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I like that the Author was honest and forthright about what it was like to be raised by homosexual parents. This was a book was a very good read.

Dorel S.

Of course it did! I saw on the internet ...

Reviewed in Canada on October 6, 2017

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Of course it did ! I saw on the internet a youg man with homosexuals parents complaining about how miserable his life is, as aconsequence of their life style.

Alexandre Molinaro

muito bom

Reviewed in Brazil on March 6, 2016

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Mostra como esse tipo de relacionamento influencia nas crianças que vivem a situação. Esse tipo de livro não encontrei em português !!!!??? Tudo e jogado para baixo do tapete.

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Paul

An Important story

Reviewed in Canada on August 25, 2018

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An incredible story that must be part of the homosexual discussion. Especially regarding same-sex parenting (adoptions).

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