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Kyle Smith: Where Was the Village?

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

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.


Comments

  • [1] Katie from Forest Hills June 10, 2008 - 10:37AM

    Child Abuse leaves lasting scars into adulthood. If they survive it at all!
  • [2] hjs from 11211 June 10, 2008 - 10:39AM

    if people can't treat their kids with repect why would anyone else?
  • [3] sharon forman from Rockland County June 10, 2008 - 10:43AM

    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.
  • [4] mgdu from hell's kitchen June 10, 2008 - 10:44AM

    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.
  • [5] Marylou from Manhattan June 11, 2008 - 01:26PM

    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?

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