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The Child Welfare League
found that an overwhelming number of administrators in the field plan to leave their agencies within the next 10 years to retire. Turnover in other areas is high as well. Between January and July of 2001, the average turnover rate for child welfare workers was about 38 percent.By most accounts, it is a complicated job that requires keen investigative skills and sharp judgment.
"When we're investigating abuse, we routinely enter crack houses, deal with drug dealers and domestic violence, all without a gun, a bullet-proof vest or a partner," said Alice Auerbach, a Suffolk child protective worker.
Charting Abuse Cases - A look at the change in reported cases of child abuse or neglect among states in the region from 1999 to 2000, the most recent period for which statistics are available.
SOURCE: Child Welfare League of America
Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc.
***(This is what most of us have been saying all along....why do people who have hurt children suffer no penalty or a slap on the wrist? Basically the worst thing that can happen to an alleged perpetrator in a child abuse case is separation from the alleged victim....this is of no consequence to a criminal, and is worse than a death sentence to a loving parent. The whole system needs to be trashed. Child abuse is a crime, and should be investigated and treated as such)
Real Child Abuse IS A CRIME and MUST be re-criminalized. Thus, the "Accused" would have rights and protections, especially the FALSELY ACCUSED.
Abuse DEFINITIONS must be narrowed to REAL PHYSICAL (not welts or "red marks" from SPANKING) or REAL SEXUAL ABUSE (not the COMMON divorce-related accusation).
Allegations of "Mental Abuse" or "Mental Injury", "Neglect", and "Threat of Harm" should be discarded as the "Snake Oil" frauds they are.
Mandated Reporting laws should be STRICKEN from the books, or at least modified to allow the professional's "personal judgment" not to report every skinned knee under threat of losing his professional credentials.
Child Abuse allegations must be PROFESSIONALLY investigated by POLICE as to whether a CRIME has been committed. When child abuse investigations are conducted by people whose main goal is to dig up dirt on a family and preach their own opinions about child discipline, and desire for every family to be in "therapy," you end up with a mess.
SOCIAL AGENCIES must be STRIPPED of their "police-and-punish" TERRORIST POWER. Social workers, psychologists, and physicians who have committed treasonable acts against American citizens by denying their Civil Rights and providing PERJURIOUS testimony, should be SUED BACK TO THE STONE AGE, and stripped of any credentials to operate in any related field other than cleaning toilets.
CONTRACT Psychologists, psychiatrists, and so-called "mental health clinicians" MUST be taken out of the formula ENTIRELY. They certainly should NOT provide input to an investigation, and ANYTHING they say should be regarded as a complete fabrication. They have earned no credibility whatsoever for their SUBJECTIVE OPINIONS based on the politics of experiments in Social Engineering.
The Falsely Accused should have the right to LEGAL REMEDIES, including the right to sue and recover SUBSTANTIAL monetary loss and punitive damages from the STATE and it's actors, and including locally- published PUBLIC APOLOGY and re-instatement of the falsely accused's honor by the STATE.
Malicious FALSE REPORTERS must face SEVERE fines and imprisonment.
It's Time to STOP PARENT ABUSE!
