Where Are You On The Subject Of Social Work Agencies

November 30th, 2009

During by time as a law student, I was called a liberal and social worker by my politically conservative class mates. Do you remember the term young republicans? I went to school with a lot of young republicans. I would hear comments from the back room of class that I should be a lawyer for social work agencies because I would cay when briefing a case that society should judge what is right or wrong in come cases not the law courts.

I do not consider myself a liberal in any sense of the word. But if you remember the term young republicans, you will have an idea of the guys I went to law school with. Although my minor study in college was sociology. So I do know the principles of sociology and know why conservative called me a social worker anytime I argued a legal case from a caring and relative standpoint.

If you want to know what conservatives think of when they think of social workers, go back to some of the films of the fifty’s and sixties. Remember the movie with Marlon Brando who rides around on his motorcycle disrupting the normal way of life of each town he passes through. There is always a young attractive woman who knows the rebel is simply misunderstood by the rest of society. In fact society is why he is a rebel. Society has made him this way. And she is going to help him overcome all the wrong and injustice society has done to the rebel.

Conservative minded people both politically and socially argue that everyone, even handsome young movie stars, as a right of self responsibility. If your life is tough then you made it tough on yourself. Do not blame society and certainly do not blame your environment.

But the social worker, or at least those with degrees in sociology will say that a person who is raised for instance in the ghetto in a one parent family living in a neighborhood filled with illegal activity like illegal drug dealing, illegal gambling, and prostitution has many disadvantages compared to a person raised in an upper class family with two parents living in a nice home on a street unfamiliar to crime.

I worked the ghetto as a sales representative. I worked the rich side of town as a sales representative. Guess where I would choose to grow up or raise a family. Listen no matter how driven a child is, no matter how smart a child is, growing up in the ghetto is not easy compared to growing up in an upper class area with two parents.

This is not to say that those who decide to forget school and join the ranks of the drug dealers or other law breakers do not have personal responsibility for their acts, they do. But social workers do not need conservatives calling them bleeding heart liberals.

No there are many young people living in a jungle of crime, destruction, and disillusion who want to get out. Some do not need to hear about how their environment is responsible for the continuing social problems passed down from one generation to the next. No they simply need help to get themselves out of the ghetto. And that is where social work agencies can help.

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