Andrew White, director of the Center for New York City Affairs at Milano The
New School for Management and Urban Policy, which publishes
Child Welfare Watch
and
Susan Jacobs, executive director of the Center for Family Representation, a non-
profit law and policy organization that works on child and family
welfare, say this is not another Nixzmary Brown-type case in which ACS failed to protect a vulnerable child. It's more complicated than that.
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What if you hear a child screaming every night, & you can't tell if it's the terrible 2's & she doesn't want to go to bed, or it's abuse? What if you hear the mother shout things like, "Shut up!" or "I'm going to send you back to your goddamned father"? What if you've offered help to the mother & been snubbed? What if you've called child welfare & been told, "Well...the next time it happens call 911"? What if you're just unable to tell if you'd be saving a child or breaking up a family? What if you're at a loss?
no decent human being allows anyone to abuse a young child without intervening immediately and with physical force if necessary.
the community in which this child lived is totally to blame and every one of the individuals in it has shown him or herself to be contemptible.
Child welfare workers are not "social workers", using the term social worker as if its interchangeable with child welfare worker diminish's and inaccurately characterizes the Social Worker profession placing undo blame on a group of professionals that usually are not hired as front line child welfare workers. Social Worker have Masters Degrees and advanced training and years of clinical supervision to hold a NYS License.
if people can't treat their kids with repect why would anyone else?
Child Abuse leaves lasting scars into adulthood. If they survive it at all!
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