Reply #24: Yuck. the last fucking thing [View All]

[liberalhistorian]

a social services dept., or a client, needs is a "social worker" like this. Those who cannot separate their personal beliefs from their work and the needs of their clients, and those are usually conservatives, can, and often do, do tremendous damage to their clients, their department, and their profession. While that's true in most jobs and professions, it's ESPECIALLY true in social work. People like this should NOT be social workers, period.

What's she gonna do when dealing with a client whose husband is abusing her and/or her children? Ask her to figure out why she "provokes" him and to "improve" her behavior to appease and submit to him? What about someone who's abusing their child, is she gonna advise him or her on how far the beatings can go before it's biblically considered child abuse? What about an unmarried client with a child/children, is she gonna refuse to do her job unless they get married or try to find a spouse? What about people with drug addictions or alcoholism or AIDS or any other such "undesirable" condition? Is she just gonna lecture and harass them instead of doing her damn job and assist them? And what if a child has been removed from an abusive, neglectful home and desperately needs a stable, caring, loving home, and the only people interested in adopting the child and giving him or her such a home are gay? Is she just gonna let the child languish in the foster care system, being bounced from home to home, doing more and more psychological damage?

All of the above are situations social workers are confronted with daily, and their clients are usually poor, desperate, depressed (maybe even suicidal) and desperately in need of compassion, care, concern and attention. They don't need the kind of shit that social workers such as her are likely to give them. The social work profession itself was created to provide such care, compassion, concern, mercy and assistance to people in all kinds of desperate situations, no matter what the reason for that situation, without hateful judgment and harassment. People like her should NEVER be social workers.