catalina_francisco
Happily insatiable always
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Thanks for your posting Niteshade...you are truly a remarkable young woman of great strength. This type situation is the one reason I refused to accept training or a job with Family Services after completing my degree. I had too many friends who went through the system they provided and were damaged for life by it, and knew of the short comings in service provision from my personal interaction on a professional level.
While people argued that is why should want to work there, I knew the burnout rate of workers, and the feeling of futility of working in an environment where basically your hands are tied by red tape and insufficient funding, and therefore lives lost every day. To be fair, the majority of workers are committed to saving children from situations you describe, and that is why they burnout so easily. They are in a system ruled by government bodies who really don't understand (or care about) the reality, and are not sufficiently funded to work in a way which supports fairness and protection for all children. For me, in any area of child protection, it was a last resort.
That being said, as someone outside the situation I would not begin to pretend understand your exact feelings of outrage at what has happened to your sisters, but can imagine it runs the gamut of emotions. They need you now, and in the future, so please take care of your actions in relation to a blight on the face of the earth who would no more care about you sacrificing your life to save them than he would fly to the moon. He is not worth the heartache so many would feel if you took the law into your own hands, nor do I think you want to give him the satisfaction of once again hurting your loved ones, and you. Take care.
Catalina
While people argued that is why should want to work there, I knew the burnout rate of workers, and the feeling of futility of working in an environment where basically your hands are tied by red tape and insufficient funding, and therefore lives lost every day. To be fair, the majority of workers are committed to saving children from situations you describe, and that is why they burnout so easily. They are in a system ruled by government bodies who really don't understand (or care about) the reality, and are not sufficiently funded to work in a way which supports fairness and protection for all children. For me, in any area of child protection, it was a last resort.
That being said, as someone outside the situation I would not begin to pretend understand your exact feelings of outrage at what has happened to your sisters, but can imagine it runs the gamut of emotions. They need you now, and in the future, so please take care of your actions in relation to a blight on the face of the earth who would no more care about you sacrificing your life to save them than he would fly to the moon. He is not worth the heartache so many would feel if you took the law into your own hands, nor do I think you want to give him the satisfaction of once again hurting your loved ones, and you. Take care.
Catalina
