For the Love of a Child

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Summary: The perfect sequel to *Not Without My Daughter*.
Review: *For the Love of a Child* picks up where *Not Without My Daughter* left off. We get to hear about Mahmoody's return to the U.S.A. and her joyous reunion with her family. But, it does not stop there. Mahmoody describes her efforts to increase public awareness of the issue of international parental child abduction. As she made her struggles known, she met many people with similar stories. *For the Love of a Child* includes the stories of five of those people. Particularly interesting is Mahmoody's account of the making of the film of *Not Without My Daughter*. And, we can be inspired by Mahtob's reaction to all her experiences. In her first book, Betty Mahmoody told us how her desire for her daughter's welfare motivated her to endure tremendous hardship. In *For the Love of a Child*, she shows how universal such desires are, and how they are driving both individuals and governments all over the world.

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Summary: Not at all a Story about Betty and Mahtob Mahmoody
Review: For the Love of a Child is a hodge-podge of very similar stories and the reader can become confused as to which parents Betty is referring to. The book's first couple of chapters is about their very interesting return to the U.S. and how they had to re-adapt to their former life, but the rest of the book is wholly about other left-behind parents' stories. Most of the book contains incessant "name dropping" and how Betty has dedicated her life to travelling the world speaking about the plight of left-behind parents all the while leaving the reader to wonder in who's care she would always be leaving her child Mahtob, especially since she repeatedly mentions the looming threat of the return of her husband, Moody. The book could be a bit boring especially the story about the "Mother of Algiers" and often she refers to people in which the reader does not recall because the stories were numerous, redundant and poorly developed for any hope of retention.

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Summary: shocked
Review: this is just quickly as a response for "reader from new york".

quite honestly i was shocked with your response to a book about a woman who was held captive by her husband in a foreign country, along with her daughter.

you obviously have no idea what it's like to worry about being kidnapped by your parent\husband.

i know that if i was in mahtob's place id be afraid of meeting one on one with my father, and wouldnt be planning to anytime soon.