Argumentative Essay On Social Work

As I was sitting drinking my morning coffee I was alarmed by hearing the news stating that a young fourteen-year-old boy had been locked in a downstairs basement room for approximately a year or maybe more per news sources I was completely mortified. I come from a large family of eleven and I have always enjoyed people and therefore I could not believe that someone could abuse a person especially a child in any way. I have given the thought of this social work problem my overall thinking and the major problem in the social work field, in my opinion, is that due to a declining economy jobs are no available for those with a trade or high school education people have become stressed from not having enough money to support their families. In one

I feel that the foster care programs are not monitored enough and maybe that’s because there aren’t enough people employed in the social work area or maybe the paperwork required is too heavy which keeps the social worker away from visiting a child that could be in danger. Maybe someone needs to consider re-writing social work forms or updating the current forms to adequately collect data that is pertinent in keeping the foster child safe. Some jobs are more concerned with quota and how they monitor what a person does daily which is good also but should not be the goal for everyday activities. Social workers are real people and should be treated as such and not paper and pencil pushers that are only concerned with meeting the daily workload and consequently If more field workers were available maybe children like the little fourteen-year-old boy would not have been mistreated. Although it was stated in the news that the parents had adopted this child what law states that a social worker couldn’t check on this child therefore maybe laws need to be