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Some days I can't help thinking about things, and I become overwhelmed by how much I hate this world. I hate the things that are allowed to go on in it. I wish I was a being with the capacity to punish people when they insist on hurting and damaging, and no one can do anything about it. I wish I could help people when no one else will, when no
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Take what's going on now. DHHS is using stall tactics because I've pretty much agreed to what they've reccomended from day one. (hell, I suggested a few things like counseling and parenting classes that they refused to actually set up until they were forced to do so.. even though it's apparantly ALWAYS done) Stalling of course.. simply keeps the kids penned up in a minimum security detention facility. It does NOTHING else. Now my father is trying to get custody of the kids... and it should be a brainless operation. Not only are the kids foundering in the foster home (attachment problems... possible issues of severe neglect and sexual abuse, emotional abuse).. but my father is fit... newly retired (tons of time for the kids), an ex teacher (degrees in psychology and a masters in education)... really a picture perfect cantidate for this sort of thing - and yet DHHS is fighting it on principal alone (so they don't give up some of their control over the situation).. and completely ignoring the fact that the kids would be better off. They shouldn't give a rat's ass about who is in control. They should consider where the kids are better off.
But they don't. It's not even a priority for them.
Keep in mind.. I can't speak for the caseworkers that I haven't dealt with. For all I know the only peice of crap caseworkers are the ones I've dealt with and all the rest are golden. I just really doubt it. And I certainly can't speak for the people who don't work in child services. I would actually suspect that each branch works a bit differently. Each has different strengths.. and each has different lies they tell themselves so that they can sleep at night. People in child services probably lie to them selves and say that they're not REALLY hurting kids just so they have something to do. And people who dish out welfare tell themselves that they're not REALLY just giving lazy people carte blanche to never contribute to society - people who dish out foodstamps tell themselves that they're not REALLY giving out so much in money that the people can't just sell off their foodstamps at the end of the month for drug money.....
Seriously michelle... I really hope that you're one of the good ones. I know they're out there, and I think you can be one of them. They're not common.. and I'm sure they try "change from the inside" instead of "just doing my job, ma'am". I'm sure the good workers DO get bothered by the stuff they're forced to do, and they don't lie to themselves about it so they can sleep easier at night. They use the corruption instead as a personal motivator to at least do THEIR job better than other people are doing. Those people are rare. Their jobs are harder. They DON'T sleep better at night. But years later... when they reflect back upon their lives, they have the opportunity to actually see what they have done and smile. Sometimes the best road is the toughest.. I wish that for you, because you can succeed in it, and quite frankly.. we don't need more people... in ANY jobs.. who keep on insisting on taking the easy path at the expense of everyone else.
Zeus - god of philosophizing
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