Re: re unrelated males in household--AND THE IMPOSSIBILITYOFCREATING A VALID MEASURE OF IMMINENT DANGER

["Simcha Plisner" <splisner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

. Certainly social workers make mistakes, but they need and
deserve much more support than they get for the difficult work they do and
the courage to make difficult decisions. Sometimes those decisions go awry.

Julia

What is the false positive and negative rate? Does the intervention
at all work to save kids as it is set up to day? Does the good substantially
outway the few people that get unfairly caught in the net? Hypothetically,
do
the benefits out weigh the good if only one or two falsely accused sitting
5, 10 or more years in jail and become unable to live in a community after
they are released without exoneration? I do not know the answers to these
with surity but I do know that far too much faith is placed on the "belief"
not
knowledge that what the child protection system does helps children and \
that there is very little false positive.

I very value much academic research especially when it is done correctly and
not
just as advocacy however academics are no more knowledgeable of what truly
goes on in the system because they practicioners hide behind secrecy and yes
often
enguage in deception to cover up errors. No they are not malicious for the
most part
but they are sent to do a job that they really are not capable of doing well
and are
affraid that anyone including they themselves should find out is true.

Simcha Plisner JD, MSW, BASW, BA-psych.