Title: Detour: Forced onto a new road when our unmarried daughter became pregnant  Author: Donna Colwell Rosser  ISBN: 0-8189-0911-0  Paperback: vi + 104 pp.  Price: $9.95 + shipping  To Order call: 1 800-343-ALBA (2522) Please have your Master, Visa or American Express card ready. To order online click here.

An unmarried daughter's telling you that she's pregnant has a way of getting your attention and holding it as almost nothing else ever could. To a parent who has struggled to bring her children up to respect God, themselves and others, it can seem almost inconceivable that her own daughter could have found herself in such a situation. The impact was nothing short of devastating to all concerned. The girl herself was forced into making the kind of mature decisions she was not at all used to making. The mother and father had four other children to think of as they strove to do what was best for their daughter and her unborn child. There was family pride to think of, and other relatives and friends to contend with, to say nothing of doctors and unexpected health problems. Abortion was out of the question for a Catholic pro-life family, and taking the child in to be brought up as one's own created problems too. What do you do? To whom do you turn? How do you find the strength to carry on?

 

Wife, mother of five, poet and writer who has over 200 magazine articles to her credit and has been published by Cricket and Cobblestone, Good Apple Publications and Standard Publishing, Donna Colwell Rosser recently developed a 200-page cookbook and abstract of the River City (Pittsburgh-based) Brass Band entitled Cookin' With Brass. Reviews "Difficult journey: One of the toughest things a parent can face -- spiritually and emotionally -- is for their college-age daughter to become pregnant during her sophomore year. After overcoming the initial shock, author Donna Colwell Rosser, who wrote prose and poetry in school as a way of working through issues, decided that the way she was going to get through the 'trauma' was to write. So comes Detour: Forced onto a new road when our unmarried daughter became pregnant. In this personal and gripping tale, Rosser bares her soul for readers -- shame and sorrow, anger and joy. For parents who find themselves on this road, this book is a great companion. From the moment her daughter tells her about the pregnancy until after the baby is born at the beginning of the next school year, Rosser is frank -- refreshingly so -- and allows readers to feel their own feelings. Useful for teen counselors, parents. A powerful witness." --Crux of the News, July 22, 2002 Top of Page