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No Such Thing as "Cycle of Abuse." ...
Kane wrote
Give Greg a hand here. He's likely to be tongue tied as usual, or go off on a rant about CPS being the culpable party, Didn't you read the article? Article stated: The nine-member panel, appointed by Mayor Street last fall, conducted about 800 interviews and studied thousands of DHS files over the past six months. The result is a 218-page report identifying problems within DHS and recommendations for fixing them. Street yesterday called the report a "road map to lasting reform." But DHS has been down this road before. In the past two decades, there have been at least 22 reports examining problems within the agency. While some of the problems were corrected over the years, many persisted - and still do. "To a large extent, the recent history of this agency has been crisis, analysis, report, and inadequate change," this new report notes. This report, like many of its predecessors, found the agency is still foundering with many of the same ills: * No clear mission or guidelines. * Sloppy and shoddy case files. * An insular we-know-best culture. * Caseworkers who lack compassion, professionalism and respect for families. (One DHS client interviewed by the panel said she felt more "disrespect by DHS workers than by thugs on the street.") * Unresponsive DHS workers who fail to return repeated phone calls. * A "random" approach to decision-making. This one always begs for MORE FUNDING! The main problem, panelists found, was the agency has strayed from its core mission of child safety. It has gotten bogged down helping families who lack food and shelter - problems that should be handled by other city agencies. Families end up in the DHS system simply because they are poor, panelists said. To keep kids safe, the panel urged DHS workers to check up on children every month, rather than every six months as currently mandated. * On Jun 2, 12:05 am, "0:-]" wrote: .. or so says Greg. And uses one of the flabbiest pieces of "research" I think I've ever seen. So, what do you think about this article, Greg? Anyone? Give Greg a hand here. He's likely to be tongue tied as usual, or go off on a rant about CPS being the culpable party, and refuse to accept that the "shortcomings" had everything to do with short staffing and lack of funds to DO the suggested remedial actions. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/7780176.html Philly.com Cycle of abuse and neglect cited in blistering report By WENDY RUDERMAN 215-854-2860 Furman Furman * Jill Porter | Report just more of the same, or will this one bring change? * A TRAGIC LEGACY AT DHS The city's Department of Human Services failed David Furman as a kid. And roughly two decades later, as a young father, Furman failed his own 1-year-old son in the worst possible way: He killed him. Furman had spent his toddler years moving from one foster home to another, including one where a foster mother later confided that he had been molested. Now the 20-year-old Frankford man is in prison for shaking his crying infant to death in a frustrated rage. Furman's unstable childhood and the violent death of little Jahmir Furman tell a sad, but all too common, story of a cycle of abused or neglected children once under DHS care who grew to become murderous parents. In short, the past sins of DHS are often visited on the kids of today's still-troubled DHS system, a new report examining the child-welfare agency found. Jahmir's death was one of 52 child fatalities from July 2001 through August 2006 reviewed by a mayoral panel tasked with ending a pattern of failure within DHS. Half of the 52 children were under DHS care when they died; the other half had either previously received DHS services or were born into families formerly in the system. In the report made public yesterday, the panel found that a "shocking number" of parents who intentionally or unintentionally killed their children had been in the DHS system as children. "Many of the parents who should have been protected by the state when they were children were not well-served," the panel concludes. "The inattention to their traumatic experiences has resulted in predictable, intergenerational, devastating, dysfunctional behavior." Of the 52 deaths reviewed by the panel, 20 were victims of unspeakable abuse. They were beaten, strangled, starved, and drowned. The bodies of seven other children who died showed signs of previous physical abuse, though the city's medical examiner was unable to rule the deaths as homicides. The rest - 25 of the 52 - died from unsafe sleeping conditions, unintentional accidents, illness, or sudden unexplained infant death. In fact, babies were the most likely to die: 34 of the 52 were infants. In 50 percent of the infant deaths, at least one parent had been in DHS as a child, according to the report. These parents, said one panel member, represent "failures of our child welfare system - without a doubt." Some of the infant deaths might have been prevented if DHS caseworkers had been taught to look for not-so-obvious safety risks, like a caretaker's history of child abuse or neglect. "As former victims of child abuse, they often were dealing with drug abuse, mental health problems, and domestic violence," the report states. "This strongly suggests that the agency did not recognize the risk inherent in having been a victim of maltreatment." The panel recommended that DHS implement by June 30 a uniform safety checklist for caseworkers to use when they visit homes. The list will include both obvious safety risks, like whether there is faulty electrical wiring in the house, and less obvious risks, such as whether the mom has a new boyfriend staying at the house. The nine-member panel, appointed by Mayor Street last fall, conducted about 800 interviews and studied thousands of DHS files over the past six months. The result is a 218-page report identifying problems within DHS and recommendations for fixing them. Street yesterday called the report a "road map to lasting reform." But DHS has been down this road before. In the past two decades, there have been at least 22 reports examining problems within the agency. While some of the problems were corrected over the years, many persisted - and still do. "To a large extent, the recent history of this agency has been crisis, analysis, report, and inadequate change," this new report notes. This report, like many of its predecessors, found the agency is still foundering with many of the same ills: * No clear mission or guidelines. * Sloppy and shoddy case files. * An insular we-know-best culture. * Caseworkers who lack compassion, professionalism and respect for families. (One DHS client interviewed by the panel said she felt more "disrespect by DHS workers than by thugs on the street.") * Unresponsive DHS workers who fail to return repeated phone calls. * A "random" approach to decision-making. The main problem, panelists found, was the agency has strayed from its core mission of child safety. It has gotten bogged down helping families who lack food and shelter - problems that should be handled by other city agencies. Families end up in the DHS system simply because they are poor, panelists said. To keep kids safe, the panel urged DHS workers to check up on children every month, rather than every six months as currently mandated. * Updated 12:00 AM EDT |
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No Such Thing as "Cycle of Abuse." ...
On Jun 2, 2:08 am, Greegor wrote:
Kane wrote Give Greg a hand here. He's likely to be tongue tied as usual, or go off on a rant about CPS being the culpable party, Didn't you read the article? Article stated: The nine-member panel, appointed by Mayor Street last fall, conducted about 800 interviews and studied thousands of DHS files over the past six months. The result is a 218-page report identifying problems within DHS and recommendations for fixing them. Street yesterday called the report a "road map to lasting reform." But DHS has been down this road before. In the past two decades, there have been at least 22 reports examining problems within the agency. While some of the problems were corrected over the years, many persisted - and still do. "To a large extent, the recent history of this agency has been crisis, analysis, report, and inadequate change," this new report notes. This report, like many of its predecessors, found the agency is still foundering with many of the same ills: * No clear mission or guidelines. * Sloppy and shoddy case files. * An insular we-know-best culture. * Caseworkers who lack compassion, professionalism and respect for families. (One DHS client interviewed by the panel said she felt more "disrespect by DHS workers than by thugs on the street.") * Unresponsive DHS workers who fail to return repeated phone calls. * A "random" approach to decision-making. This one always begs for MORE FUNDING! The main problem, panelists found, was the agency has strayed from its core mission of child safety. It has gotten bogged down helping families who lack food and shelter - problems that should be handled by other city agencies. Families end up in the DHS system simply because they are poor, panelists said. To keep kids safe, the panel urged DHS workers to check up on children every month, rather than every six months as currently mandated. * On Jun 2, 12:05 am, "0:-]" wrote: .. or so says Greg. And uses one of the flabbiest pieces of "research" I think I've ever seen. So, what do you think about this article, Greg? Anyone? Give Greg a hand here. He's likely to be tongue tied as usual, or go off on a rant about CPS being the culpable party, and refuse to accept that the "shortcomings" had everything to do with short staffing and lack of funds to DO the suggested remedial actions. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/7780176.html Philly.com Cycle of abuse and neglect cited in blistering report By WENDY RUDERMAN 215-854-2860 Furman Furman * Jill Porter | Report just more of the same, or will this one bring change? * A TRAGIC LEGACY AT DHS The city's Department of Human Services failed David Furman as a kid. And roughly two decades later, as a young father, Furman failed his own 1-year-old son in the worst possible way: He killed him. Furman had spent his toddler years moving from one foster home to another, including one where a foster mother later confided that he had been molested. Now the 20-year-old Frankford man is in prison for shaking his crying infant to death in a frustrated rage. Furman's unstable childhood and the violent death of little Jahmir Furman tell a sad, but all too common, story of a cycle of abused or neglected children once under DHS care who grew to become murderous parents. In short, the past sins of DHS are often visited on the kids of today's still-troubled DHS system, a new report examining the child-welfare agency found. Jahmir's death was one of 52 child fatalities from July 2001 through August 2006 reviewed by a mayoral panel tasked with ending a pattern of failure within DHS. Half of the 52 children were under DHS care when they died; the other half had either previously received DHS services or were born into families formerly in the system. In the report made public yesterday, the panel found that a "shocking number" of parents who intentionally or unintentionally killed their children had been in the DHS system as children. "Many of the parents who should have been protected by the state when they were children were not well-served," the panel concludes. "The inattention to their traumatic experiences has resulted in predictable, intergenerational, devastating, dysfunctional behavior." Of the 52 deaths reviewed by the panel, 20 were victims of unspeakable abuse. They were beaten, strangled, starved, and drowned. The bodies of seven other children who died showed signs of previous physical abuse, though the city's medical examiner was unable to rule the deaths as homicides. The rest - 25 of the 52 - died from unsafe sleeping conditions, unintentional accidents, illness, or sudden unexplained infant death. In fact, babies were the most likely to die: 34 of the 52 were infants. In 50 percent of the infant deaths, at least one parent had been in DHS as a child, according to the report. These parents, said one panel member, represent "failures of our child welfare system - without a doubt." Some of the infant deaths might have been prevented if DHS caseworkers had been taught to look for not-so-obvious safety risks, like a caretaker's history of child abuse or neglect. "As former victims of child abuse, they often were dealing with drug abuse, mental health problems, and domestic violence," the report states. "This strongly suggests that the agency did not recognize the risk inherent in having been a victim of maltreatment." The panel recommended that DHS implement by June 30 a uniform safety checklist for caseworkers to use when they visit homes. The list will include both obvious safety risks, like whether there is faulty electrical wiring in the house, and less obvious risks, such as whether the mom has a new boyfriend staying at the house. The nine-member panel, appointed by Mayor Street last fall, conducted about 800 interviews and studied thousands of DHS files over the past six months. The result is a 218-page report identifying problems within DHS and recommendations for fixing them. Street yesterday called the report a "road map to lasting reform." But DHS has been down this road before. In the past two decades, there have been at least 22 reports examining problems within the agency. While some of the problems were corrected over the years, many persisted - and still do. "To a large extent, the recent history of this agency has been crisis, analysis, report, and inadequate change," this new report notes. This report, like many of its predecessors, found the agency is still foundering with many of the same ills: * No clear mission or guidelines. * Sloppy and shoddy case files. * An insular we-know-best culture. * Caseworkers who lack compassion, professionalism and respect for families. (One DHS client interviewed by the panel said she felt more "disrespect by DHS workers than by thugs on the street.") * Unresponsive DHS workers who fail to return repeated phone calls. * A "random" approach to decision-making. The main problem, panelists found, was the agency has strayed from its core mission of child safety. It has gotten bogged down helping families who lack food and shelter - problems that should be handled by other city agencies. Families end up in the DHS system simply because they are poor, panelists said. To keep kids safe, the panel urged DHS workers to check up on children every month, rather than every six months as currently mandated. * Updated 12:00 AM EDT Greg.....all you can do, after reading this article is point out how badly that particular cps agency is failing? ok, then If you are claiming there is no such thing as a cycle of abuse, you are so far out of the ballgame, you might as well go home. I'm not going to quote articles or any of the textbooks I have sitting here. I will however, tell you a true story which I saw unfold before my eyes over several years. My uncle met his 2nd wife in the late 70's. She was divorced with two kids...a son aged 12 a daughter 10. During her first marriage, there was a daily dose of DV between her and her ex. Her ex also beat the kids (beyond the 'normal' spanking). I have seen pictures of those kids with bruises up and down their bodies and serious blajened eyes. Thinking about it now majes my chest tightend up. I heard from them how bad it was. They had been removed from their home by cps and placed in foster care for 2 years. Thankfully, they had wonderful FPs who cared for them for 14 months. My 'step cousins' didn't want to go home. Their mom eventually kicked her ex out, got a divorce, and her kids came home. After she met and married my uncle, her ex went nuts and came to the hjouse one night. I was there when this happened. The first thing he did was grab his daughter and started hitting her. He was screaming that he wouldn't stop hitting her until her mom left with him, bringing the kids, and leaving my uncle. I don't know who called but the police showed up before he could harm anyone more. Fast forward several years. My female step cousin is out on her own at 15.....addicted to drugs and pregnant. The state took her son at birth because he was born addicted to more things than I care to count. After a year, she gets her son back only to have him removed 3 months later because she was abusing him. She would feed him when she saw fit. He was dirty and she beat him. No one from the family had constant contact with her so no one knew how bad it was for her son. He was eventually adopted. Fast forward several more years. Her brother gets married As soon as he got married, he started hitting his wife. His mind couldn't comprehend the right way to treat a spouse even though my uncle never hit his mom. It's what was ingrained in him from his early years that registered. They had a child about a year or so after they married. They had me provide daycare for their son. I was running a licensed daycare out of my home. I was dropping him off every night to help my cousin and his wife out as they only had one car. One night, I was dropping him off. I walked into world war 3. Not only was my cousin hitting his w3ife but when his son ran through the house to give daddy a hug, he hit his son. I scooped his son up and told his parents that I was keeping him for the night and to get their **** together. Being a mandated reporter, I called it in. CPS was out at their house that night. They were told that they had to get into marriage and individual counseling and parenting classes, among a few other NEEDED services. Their son stayed with me for a few days then went to my cousin's inlaws home for 3 months. Things are great for them now. They went on, bought a lovely home, have 5 great kids....no DV nor child abuse/neglect going on. Hopefully THAT circle/cycle of abuse has ended. My female cousin, unfortunately, never got the help she needed to kill the cycle. She had, and abused two more children...lost them to the repective states she was living in, and eventually killed herself in 1999. So please greg, show me where there is no circle of abuse. 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No Such Thing as "Cycle of Abuse." ...
On Jun 2, 7:39 am, lostintranslation
wrote: On Jun 2, 2:08 am, Greegor wrote: Kane wrote Give Greg a hand here. He's likely to be tongue tied as usual, or go off on a rant about CPS being the culpable party, Didn't you read the article? Article stated: The nine-member panel, appointed by Mayor Street last fall, conducted about 800 interviews and studied thousands of DHS files over the past six months. The result is a 218-page report identifying problems within DHS and recommendations for fixing them. Street yesterday called the report a "road map to lasting reform." But DHS has been down this road before. In the past two decades, there have been at least 22 reports examining problems within the agency. While some of the problems were corrected over the years, many persisted - and still do. "To a large extent, the recent history of this agency has been crisis, analysis, report, and inadequate change," this new report notes. This report, like many of its predecessors, found the agency is still foundering with many of the same ills: * No clear mission or guidelines. * Sloppy and shoddy case files. * An insular we-know-best culture. * Caseworkers who lack compassion, professionalism and respect for families. (One DHS client interviewed by the panel said she felt more "disrespect by DHS workers than by thugs on the street.") * Unresponsive DHS workers who fail to return repeated phone calls. * A "random" approach to decision-making. This one always begs for MORE FUNDING! The main problem, panelists found, was the agency has strayed from its core mission of child safety. It has gotten bogged down helping families who lack food and shelter - problems that should be handled by other city agencies. Families end up in the DHS system simply because they are poor, panelists said. To keep kids safe, the panel urged DHS workers to check up on children every month, rather than every six months as currently mandated. * On Jun 2, 12:05 am, "0:-]" wrote: .. or so says Greg. And uses one of the flabbiest pieces of "research" I think I've ever seen. So, what do you think about this article, Greg? Anyone? Give Greg a hand here. He's likely to be tongue tied as usual, or go off on a rant about CPS being the culpable party, and refuse to accept that the "shortcomings" had everything to do with short staffing and lack of funds to DO the suggested remedial actions. http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/7780176.html Philly.com Cycle of abuse and neglect cited in blistering report By WENDY RUDERMAN 215-854-2860 Furman Furman * Jill Porter | Report just more of the same, or will this one bring change? * A TRAGIC LEGACY AT DHS The city's Department of Human Services failed David Furman as a kid. And roughly two decades later, as a young father, Furman failed his own 1-year-old son in the worst possible way: He killed him. Furman had spent his toddler years moving from one foster home to another, including one where a foster mother later confided that he had been molested. Now the 20-year-old Frankford man is in prison for shaking his crying infant to death in a frustrated rage. Furman's unstable childhood and the violent death of little Jahmir Furman tell a sad, but all too common, story of a cycle of abused or neglected children once under DHS care who grew to become murderous parents. In short, the past sins of DHS are often visited on the kids of today's still-troubled DHS system, a new report examining the child-welfare agency found. Jahmir's death was one of 52 child fatalities from July 2001 through August 2006 reviewed by a mayoral panel tasked with ending a pattern of failure within DHS. Half of the 52 children were under DHS care when they died; the other half had either previously received DHS services or were born into families formerly in the system. In the report made public yesterday, the panel found that a "shocking number" of parents who intentionally or unintentionally killed their children had been in the DHS system as children. "Many of the parents who should have been protected by the state when they were children were not well-served," the panel concludes. "The inattention to their traumatic experiences has resulted in predictable, intergenerational, devastating, dysfunctional behavior." Of the 52 deaths reviewed by the panel, 20 were victims of unspeakable abuse. They were beaten, strangled, starved, and drowned. The bodies of seven other children who died showed signs of previous physical abuse, though the city's medical examiner was unable to rule the deaths as homicides. The rest - 25 of the 52 - died from unsafe sleeping conditions, unintentional accidents, illness, or sudden unexplained infant death. In fact, babies were the most likely to die: 34 of the 52 were infants. In 50 percent of the infant deaths, at least one parent had been in DHS as a child, according to the report. These parents, said one panel member, represent "failures of our child welfare system - without a doubt." Some of the infant deaths might have been prevented if DHS caseworkers had been taught to look for not-so-obvious safety risks, like a caretaker's history of child abuse or neglect. "As former victims of child abuse, they often were dealing with drug abuse, mental health problems, and domestic violence," the report states. "This strongly suggests that the agency did not recognize the risk inherent in having been a victim of maltreatment." The panel recommended that DHS implement by June 30 a uniform safety checklist for caseworkers to use when they visit homes. The list will include both obvious safety risks, like whether there is faulty electrical wiring in the house, and less obvious risks, such as whether the mom has a new boyfriend staying at the house. The nine-member panel, appointed by Mayor Street last fall, conducted about 800 interviews and studied thousands of DHS files over the past six months. The result is a 218-page report identifying problems within DHS and recommendations for fixing them. Street yesterday called the report a "road map to lasting reform." But DHS has been down this road before. In the past two decades, there have been at least 22 reports examining problems within the agency. While some of the problems were corrected over the years, many persisted - and still do. "To a large extent, the recent history of this agency has been crisis, analysis, report, and inadequate change," this new report notes. This report, like many of its predecessors, found the agency is still foundering with many of the same ills: * No clear mission or guidelines. * Sloppy and shoddy case files. * An insular we-know-best culture. * Caseworkers who lack compassion, professionalism and respect for families. (One DHS client interviewed by the panel said she felt more "disrespect by DHS workers than by thugs on the street.") * Unresponsive DHS workers who fail to return repeated phone calls. * A "random" approach to decision-making. The main problem, panelists found, was the agency has strayed from its core mission of child safety. It has gotten bogged down helping families who lack food and shelter - problems that should be handled by other city agencies. Families end up in the DHS system simply because they are poor, panelists said. To keep kids safe, the panel urged DHS workers to check up on children every month, rather than every six months as currently mandated. * Updated 12:00 AM EDT Greg.....all you can do, after reading this article is point out how badly that particular cps agency is failing? ok, then If you are claiming there is no such thing as a cycle of abuse, you are so far out of the ballgame, you might as well go home. I'm not going to quote articles or any of the textbooks I have sitting here. I will however, tell you a true story which I saw unfold before my eyes over several years. My uncle met his 2nd wife in the late 70's. She was divorced with two kids...a son aged 12 a daughter 10. During her first marriage, there was a daily dose of DV between her and her ex. Her ex also beat the kids (beyond the 'normal' spanking). I have seen pictures of those kids with bruises up and down their bodies and serious blajened eyes. Thinking about it now majes my chest tightend up. I heard from them how bad it was. They had been removed from their home by cps and placed in foster care for 2 years. Thankfully, they had wonderful FPs who cared for them for 14 months. My 'step cousins' didn't want to go home. Their mom eventually kicked her ex out, got a divorce, and her kids came home. After she met and married my uncle, her ex went nuts and came to the hjouse one night. I was there when this happened. The first thing he did was grab his daughter and started hitting her. He was screaming that he wouldn't stop hitting her until her mom left with him, bringing the kids, and leaving my uncle. I don't know who called but the police showed up before he could harm anyone more. Fast forward several years. My female step cousin is out on her own at 15.....addicted to drugs and pregnant. The state took her son at birth because he was born addicted to more things than I care to count. After a year, she gets her son back only to have him removed 3 months later because she was abusing him. She would feed him when she saw fit. He was dirty and she beat him. No one from ... read more » To clarify....They were in foster care for 14 mos and spent the remaining time with their grandparents. *sorry for the typos recently...Im typing one handed due to a broken hand and wrist* |
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