Tag: foster care
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When Addicted Parents Come Back
As a Child Protective Services social worker, I encountered drug addicts whose behavior was so troubling it was hard to fathom they could ever be capable of helping their children whose childhoods they had seemingly destroyed. When a mother is driving her child around in the backseat of a car with an active meth lab…
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How Well Do We Serve the Most Vulnerable?
A case involving parents embroiled in a divorce-custody dispute sprang from the abyss one day and landed on my desk. Their conflict was so outrageous they had been reported to the child abuse hotline for it. Create an image of the worst divorce you’ve ever heard of and then multiply it by two. As a…
Andrea Verbanic 