SOCIAL SERVICES

A few years back my sister got in trouble with social services. Her lawyer informed us some very interesting information. Most social workers in the US have no children, are not even married, grew up above the poverty line and over 90% of them either grew up in an abusive home or believe they grew up in an abusive home. So my answer would be no they have no idea how to handle actual children most of them just do what the books have told them to do. At least this was my sister's experience, she has a child with what the doctors think is fragile x sydrome which causes her to do some of the craziest things, the social worker could not grasp the concept that my niece had problems because she didn't fall into any of her mentally disabled catagories. On that same note most child psychologists also have no children.

i wonder but i doubt it, it is hard to be the way that they expect...

Should be because there cannot be two different personalities while doing something for society.

Ive often wondered this myself. Today we were in the S.S. office and most of the people working there looked like they should be on foodstamps and medicade themselfs.

That is a very good question. Yes, I have often wondered if social workers have the same guidelines with their own families. I mean some of the rules or things they say seem really tough to follow. I know of a lady who had social swervices hounding down on her. She was real close to me. They expected to go to so many meetings and appointments. Than yelled at her because she couldn't work full time but had to depend on goverment help. After she divorce her husband who left her with six kids under the age of five. He took off and was not giving any support. Due to all the meetings and appointments. They also expected her house to be spotless. I do mean spotless. If there was one toy or something out of place. The social worker would mark her house as needing clean. But not bad enough for removal of the kids. I seen this happen. I could go on and on. But I won't. It still makes me mad.