Peter's Lullaby Analysis

"Peter's Lullaby: A song without words that held a little girl's life" is the most painful and horrific story I have ever read. It is a real story in which Jeanne Fowler narrates how growing up with an abusive and alcoholic mother was like. It was child abuse beyond the imaginable. Unlike other children whose lullaby are usually soothing, Fowler's lullaby was her young brother's screams of pain as he stood beaten. She begins her story by describing how the police rescued her siblings and her from unbearable torture during her few moments of being hung in her closet. Her wrists were tied above her head with blood-soaked clothes and having to endure that position repeatedly; her shoulders were in pain. It is evident that their pain was not only …show more content…
Child welfare services have the duty of ensuring children's safety and that family's support to their children are successful, (Jonson-Reid, & Barth, 2000). They prevent child neglect and abuse and ensure that children receive their basic needs. The state laws are against child abuse and provide measures for those caught violating the rights of children. It involves child labor, physical and sexual abuse and psychological maltreatment, especially by a caregiver or parent. Child welfare as portrayed in Peter's lullaby have failed miserably. How could children suffer for years without their knowledge? In addition, they did not research the foster homes they put Fowler and her sister. The foster homes were more or less like their own homes, only that the kind of abuse they received was different from the one their mother put them …show more content…
Reading Peter's Lullaby moved me to tears, thinking deeply on what kind of monster would do this to innocent children. What Fowler, Peter, and Jill went through was the painful experience any child could go through. They were living in hell in their own parent's home, and the torture they were subjected to was worse than physical and psychological abuse. One is left wondering what the kids ever did to their mother to deserve all that suffering, and again, what kind of alcohol that turns human beings into an animal. Finally, I blame the child welfare services for not taking the girls situation seriously. The girls were born and brought up in an abusive home and moving them to a similar environment was more of psychological torture. All they should have done was to give them a fresh start, free from child abuse and