Preserving Families

Preserving the family through education and examples can result in wonderful outcomes in rescuing a family from turmoil. The foster care system is stretched so far with so many cases to observe and service children can get lost in the system.

Focusing on strengthening the family and teaching alternative methods of discipline can develop young parents into good parents. Showing examples of how to use patience and time management to overcome stressful situations, realizing the cost that could be associated with these education programs could be high. The starting cost could be just a parenting class in schools which is required. Assuming that every person knows how to care for a child is assuming too much. Babies are just handed over to parents with no instructions or follow-up to secure the well-being of the child.

Some of these family situations can lead to abuse and neglect just from plain ignorance in how to care for the child. Education can go a long way in preserving the family structure. Preserving the family should be first when making decisions, most families want to stay together through education and a self awareness of their behavior preserving the family can be accomplished.
Reporting abuse and neglect must be done in every situation for the well-being of the child and their personal protection from the abuser. There are too many horror stories in families and foster care system that children are abused physically and sexually in these cases the social worker must be determined to protect the child at all cost.