Failure To Protect: The Child Welfare System
The child welfare system has evolved over the years, but still has issues that need to be worked out. After watching the film Failure to Protect? A National Dialogue and the hearing the scenario that they played out, there are still questions left to be asked about some of the decisions that were made when it came to the welfare of the children. Trevor the caseworker gets to home and is able to get inside to take a look at what the living conditions are like, they are not the best and there are what appears to be drugs and alcohol in the home with two young children (Failure to Protect, 2003). This in itself leaves me questioning why the children are still there, if the mother is on drugs or drunk then her judgement when taking of her children
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This man did inappropriate things to my stepdaughter and now we are involved in a case with DHS to have the custody of the children placed with us, because at this time they are not being kept safe in the care of their mother. The difference we are seeing compared to the film is that DHS was adamant about keeping the children together so that they had at least each other, whereas in the film Ben and Brittany are separated due to no family to take them, which makes it hard when Ben was the one there to take care of Brittany (Failure to Protect, 2003). This makes me wonder if there was enough done to try to keep the children together because with them ending up in to different foster homes, they are not only dealing with being removed from the home that they are used to, but also dealing with being separated from their siblings. The best interest of the child was taken into consideration in my opinion by removing them and trying to find foster homes that were going to be safe for them, but when their emotional well-being is looked at then we need to consider how all these changes at one time are going to affect them. Based on the film not all the correct decisions were made by the child welfare system, but there is not a system out there that does not have its flaws and there are issues and children that get left unaddressed by the child welfare system due to the amount of work that is being piled on to the
This man did inappropriate things to my stepdaughter and now we are involved in a case with DHS to have the custody of the children placed with us, because at this time they are not being kept safe in the care of their mother. The difference we are seeing compared to the film is that DHS was adamant about keeping the children together so that they had at least each other, whereas in the film Ben and Brittany are separated due to no family to take them, which makes it hard when Ben was the one there to take care of Brittany (Failure to Protect, 2003). This makes me wonder if there was enough done to try to keep the children together because with them ending up in to different foster homes, they are not only dealing with being removed from the home that they are used to, but also dealing with being separated from their siblings. The best interest of the child was taken into consideration in my opinion by removing them and trying to find foster homes that were going to be safe for them, but when their emotional well-being is looked at then we need to consider how all these changes at one time are going to affect them. Based on the film not all the correct decisions were made by the child welfare system, but there is not a system out there that does not have its flaws and there are issues and children that get left unaddressed by the child welfare system due to the amount of work that is being piled on to the