Nurturing Strangers focuses on loving nonviolent re-parenting of children in foster care. This book is a mix of narrative and real-life case studies, together with the theory and practice of nonviolence. Nurturing Strangers is one of the first books to apply philosophies of nonviolence directly to the care of children in the foster care system.

Dr. Andrew Fitz-Gibbon, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, is Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Philosophy Department, and Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace and Social Justice, at the State University of New York College at Cortland. He is the author, co-author or editor of thirteen books.

Dr. Jane Hall Fitz-Gibbon works in crisis support with TST BOCES, and is involved with the Department of Social Services, co-leading courses on foster care, adoption, and child sexual abuse. Her latest book, Corporal Punishment, Religion and United States Public Schools, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.

Acknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter One Revisiting Loving Nonviolent Re-parenting; Chapter Two Nurturing Our Better Angel of Empathy; Chapter Three Nurturing Our Better Angel of Self-Control; Chapter Four Nurturing Our Better Angel of Moral Sense; Chapter Five Nurturing Our Better Angel of Reason; Postscript; Bibliography