The Policy-Based Profession: An Introduction to Social Welfare Policy Analysis for Social Workers

by Philip R. Popple

When I told the senator about my job, the senator said, “Tell me, Bill, do you believe in the philosophy that seems to be dominant now in your department that it is nearly always best to leave a child with the natural parents? This seems unconscionable to me and many of my fellow legislators. Parents who do some of these things to their kids should lose their right to be parents. Surely we can do better by this state’s kids than to leave them in unwholesome and often dangerous home environments. All this stuff about family preservation seems to me to be so much liberal pap designed to mask the unpleasant fact that evil does exist, is irreparable, and is present in many of these parents.” Fortunately, we were interrupted before I could reply because I was stunned. I work in the Families First unit and believe in it. But I feel I should write the senator a letter explaining the approach and correcting his misrepresentations. However, I’m really not sure where to start.

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