There seems to be pervasive belief that social work is a great field to enter, despite the many stories that a social worker can encounter. There are still the "other" ones that are truly not what a family needs. But that is all beyond the sense of "why" a social worker must investigate a case, that is before him or her, and have to identify the reasons of how a family constitues their own understanding of what is going on. In the case I am referring to, there seems to be some huge mis-givings, on how a father that was beleagured and willing to "not" have any more of came with in contact with his social worker one last time. The last time was to close the door in her face, along with his two sons. He was allready being questioned for the dissappearance of his wife in Utah, and had visatation planned with his 2 children.

     The sad part is that many families are living with social workers, if it's not leaving a child alone, it's a drug abuse problem, or sexual abuse, or some other incredible problem, that begs to taken apart by a social service agency. What has become of the American people? Have we no common sense left what so ever? It seems that the stories that spiel out of control pit families at their wits end, creating a even bigger catastrophe. Take the next couple of extreme moments of a social worker calling 911 and trying to get immediate and urgent help, not knowing what the father had in mind, but for the social worker, having the door slammed in her face was allready reason enough.

     Now with in the six minutes from the time the call is made, she hears the children crying, who knows what he could have allready done to them, and in turn explodes the house as the social worker says to the 911 operator. What in God's good name, could have been going thorugh this mans mind, well one of the thoughts was actually quite valid, he could not envision a world with out his children. As a society when do we question as collective group the process of those words, even though he was wanted for question for the missing wife, he still wanted his children in his life. Now there is no more him, no more children, collectively as a society there should be more ways in which people, just ordinary people can become involved when there are people under extreme stress, (yes with children) whether it be preparing a dish or asking if you could take a child to a park for a little bit of time, even offering old magazines as a way to take away from the stigma of knowing  "a family is under the gun" or dealing with a serious CPS case.

      There is nothing pleasant about having to either legitimize why some one felt it necessary to call, the operators for CPS are trained professionals who are trained to screen calls, know if the call is due to a family issue, or other problem that deals more with "causing a problem" or purposely getting someone into trouble. Why are not CPS agencies actively involved in community sharing different ways in which a case may not be so bad, but a child or the family may be in some sort of need. With prices sky rocketing daily, groceries going up, amongst other prices is a wonder people are under stress? No, I think not, I would hope that people can request help when they are feeling "over their limits", but that is not traditional.

      That is why CPS usually comes in the way of a knock on the door, and intrudes in to peoples most private affairs, peoples children are peoples children, and are given a God given rights, but today it seems alot different. People have virtually and litterally given up those rights and instead vehmently seek out arm chair gods and vices that they swear will bring them momentary satisfaction, gone are the days of putting on shoes and going to church, it would seem like days of bygones, that people would actively surrender their distaste for all that is of the 2000's, with people still trying to make a go of most things that are seen as in-sacred and sacrilege to the very root of evil we go.

      In god like fashion, enter "we" collectively as a society watch in horror in real life, and on our fixation of t.v. a father clinging to the last hopes with gasoline in one hand and a torch in the other and 2 small kids in tow, it has all the sense of some wicked comic book hero poised on doing the unthinkable, but with the comic book there would be some superhero to get the kids at the least out of the picture, so to speak. In real life, the social worker could not possibly know what strange thoughts were brewing in this sick mans head. He did not shout out any statements, like "I'am going to burn this house down and forget about the kids" so forth and so on. But instead took his sick self and did the unthinkable, the social worker did what she could, as the police had mentioned that the phone etiquette was not correct, in having the 911 dispatcher claim that there was a prior "life threatening" situation, the police were on, and that she would have to litterally sit tight. Is horrific, not knowing what extreme instance was going to take place next. I feel for the families of this terrible tradegy and know that more needs to be done in handling of domestic disputes of all kinds, may be perhaps there should be trained counselors that can come along, being we spend so much money on government anyway, peoples lives may be saved that is what the take home message is here.