He/She/It says:
I think the thoroughness and thoughtfulness with which she explains herself is more than you deserve.
I think it's a lot easier to be like you and just paint everything black and white with broad brushes than it is to actually confront the nuances of the situation you "write" about, recognize that the truth about child welfare (as in most situations) lies much closer to the complex middle than to the simple extremes, and do something that illuminates it by other means than the glow of the bombs you seem much more content to throw. (Always figuratively, of course -- nudge nudge, wink wink.)
And I think the title of her blog is meant with a healthy dose of irony, which, again, appears to be a concept too complex for you to acknowledge in your sad and simple little world.
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So I responded with:
Who cares what you think?
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I assume it was he/she/it who responded back with:
You might ask yourself the same question.
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Sigh...
Some people will just never get it.
God has funny way with dealing with people.
ReplyDeleteBefore and after my first child I thought that any parent who had a child hospitalized a lot simply wasn't taking care of them.
Then my second child was sick. A lot. In fact he came home from the hospital where he was born with a pseudoagnira bacteria (from nurses wearing false nails which was allowed at that time). First it was asthma, then it took nine months for the bacteria to colonize his ear. Often I took him to the Dr. right when his symptoms were just beginning. Thats how close I watched him.
I have always felt that was God's way of dealing with me for being judgemental about other people.
The same thing here with commenter. When social services comes after her/him, and they will; they are going to remember being judgemental about all the parents who have been targeted by social workers.
People like me. Pike County Ky Social Worker Shereena Hamilton put into my records that I took a turd out of bag and sent it back in clothes to my boy's father.
It never happened. Hamilton never asked me about it but put it in my records AS A FACT.
My records still state that I put a turd in a bag. Her supervisors are completely aware of her fraud but have never disciplined her for CRIMINAL ACTS of falsfiying reports.
You can obtain employees personnel files through open records in case any other people are interested.
Oh, I get it, LK. You're incapable of either engaging in any real analysis of or debate about these issues -- much less actually doing something about them -- so you do this clip job, cherrypicking the stories (and parts of stories) that either jibe with your worldview or give you something to snipe at, and you cut and paste them into your blog and pair them with sneering, cynical one-liners that reduce the subject to the level you're comfortable with (approximately the level of an elementary schoolyard fight). And when someone calls you out on it, you respond the only way you know how: "Who cares what you think?" Nyaah, nyaah, nyaah.
ReplyDeleteAs for being judgmental: The only thing I'm being judgmental about is the behavior I've described above. Of COURSE there are parents who have been mistreated by CPS. Of COURSE there are children who have been taken from their homes for the wrong reasons. And of course that is a tragedy.
But I am equally certain that there are good social workers out there, and good foster parents, and good adoptive parents, and a lot of people -- like myself -- who have a genuine interest in improving the way the whole system works, from one end to the other, so that the children who really have suffered from abuse get the protection they need while families (all of them: biological, foster, and adoptive) get the support and services they need to thrive.
What I am being judgmental about is this site's unwillingness to acknowledge the complexity of these issues, to participate in any meaningful debate about them, to do anything at all that might actually advance people's understanding and spur positive action toward change. All that LK does is stoke people's bitterness and anger (including his/her/its own), which does nobody any good -- and may even cause further harm.
My point from my earlier comment remains the same: it's a lot easier to vent one's anger at the situation in the way that LK does than to channel it into doing something productive to change the situation. Not firebombing social workers' cars, not harassing foster parents on the Internet, not throwing up one's hands and saying "the system will always suck and some people will never get it." Something genuinely productive. Organizing people to work for change. Running for office. Lobbying lawmakers to pay attention to these issues. Or even just writing a blog that takes on these issues with some degree of intellectual honesty, subtlety, and candor.
My question to LK -- and anyone who reads this blog -- is not "who cares what you think?", but "do you have the guts to really try?"
Anonymous 5:04
ReplyDeleteLK is simply compiling and putting together news articles from other sites on a subject.
The mere fact that there ARE SO MANY NATION WIDE NEWS ARTICLES on the subject on a DAILY BASIS shows that there is a crisis going on.
As far as your claim that you are trying to improve the system. It cannot be improved- It has to be completely rewritten. Besides, better people than you have tried and given up.
Bias?? Lets talk about bias with the murder of social worker aid Bonnie Fredricks in Kentucky.
What happened is absolutely tragic. However the media failed to report on some very important facts that were not given great importance to the public.
First, Fredericks was not a social worker. She was an aid who made barely over minimum wage.
Second, the mother having supervised visitation with the baby was seriously mentally ill. Everybody knew it.
Third, the social worker failed to do paper work to stop visitations BEFORE the mentally ill mother was informed that all her parental rights would be terminated.
Fourth, the laziness of the social worker put Fredericks in a very dangerous position to continue the visits with the mother knowing that she would never see the child again.
Kentucky social workers prostitute Fredricks name around stating how they were under paid and how their job is so dangerous.
One phone call by a lazy social worker would have Fredericks life. So go tell yourself you are working within the system but if the system can't even admit it's screw ups then it cannot improve.
It is indisputable Child Welfare Services is a huge expense with little return and large damage to families far outweighing the minimal benefits sum gain.
ReplyDeleteIt is also indisputable the present system is relatively new and the system 50 years ago was
adequate though, as the adoption industry has always been, corrupt.
But the people at large suffered far, far, far, far, far, far, far,
fewer intrusions in to the family
home, at much, much, much less
cost.
There is nothing to argue at all
anymore. Gee. Waketh ye up!
Get a job. The world is changing
fast.
marilyn'CA.