Tag: parenting
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A Response to Naomi Schaefer Riley on Child Abuse Pediatricians from a Former CPS Social Worker
This essay is in response to this piece written by Naomi Schaefer Riley. I was a Child Protective Services (CPS) case worker in Kansas for ten years and investigated over 1400 reports, some of which involved child abuse pediatricians. I currently work as a therapist in a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (PRTF) in Kansas and…
Andrea Verbanic
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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…
Andrea Verbanic 