There is a whole lot of stuff going down. War and rumors of war in Iraq. Civil unrest in the Far East. I guess Myanmar doesn't have natural resources that we covet. Or maybe we fear the Great Red Peril. Lots of murder and mayhem right here at home. Interest rates are being manipulated by the Federal Reserve. My wife screaming about 4% pay raises for U of M union employees yet making a tough decision today whether to offer a new employee 58K or 59K and having to bump a senior employee up to 60K (8% raise she says). Glaring hypocrisy there. After all as she says the damn union employees are lucky to have jobs at all. I feel a change a comin'. Maybe this is the war that Bob Marley sang of.
Today I talked with social workers about a Mom who assisted and abetted her 15-year-old son in an assault against family members. We are not sure if it is intimidation or gang initiation, but this pretty much seals those ten kids (count 'em) from ever returning to her care. She is already on probation for an assault. The son is also on probation for an assault and escape status from a juvenile correctional facility. Ouch. Another broken family that we can put band-aids on and move them on out the door. Triage 'em and move them on to somewhere else. We handle on the crisis cases. Stabilize them and send them back into the community. Define stabilization I say.
No comments:
Post a Comment