Sam As A Social Worker

Society tends to group people with disabilities in the same category when there are ultimate different types of disabilities. Some people are afraid of people whom have disabilities because they do not understand them. However, there are people in the world who are willing to help those with disabilities. People whom have disabilities, especially ones like Sam has in the movie I am Sam, understand on some level that they are different and they care how people see them. In the movie Sam is able to teach those around him many things, including Rita on how to be a good parent. Sometimes it is not the people with disabilities that need to learn to adapt but the people without disabilities who are the ones that need to learn how to adapt.

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The child would be my first priority but I would like to see if I could figure out a way to help a parent out who is living with a disabilities instead of taking their child away from them. As a parent I would understand that all parents make mistakes and making mistakes is how we learn to grow. Using Sam as an example, I would analyze his situation from all the angles. If he is capable of raising his daughter, Lucy on his own then I would keep her in his home and if not I would see if the state could provide him with a support system and someone to help him raise his daughter. I would take steps to see if I could work with Human Services to provide the in home care. If the extra help did not work then I would take Lucy out of the home and allow Sam with a certain amount of time that he could see Lucy. Then I would follow back up my step chart and see if Sam could slowly gain more time to see Lucy until he could raise her at his home again with extra assistance. However, if none of these steps seemed to work then I would have no other choice but to take Lucy out of her home to be raised by someone else. As a social worker their job is extremely hard with little pay while working many hours. Which sometimes becomes hard to prevent a child from getting lost to the system or being sent to bad homes. In Sam and Lucy’s case all they had was the …show more content…
Now that I am an adult and have had life experiences, I am able to understand the movie better. In the movie, it breaks my heart to see a mother leave her daughter behind and especially with someone who does not fully grasp the situation. Then watching the single father struggle to take care of his daughter on his own. However, it breaks my heart that it took people seven years to notice what was going on and instead of reaching out to provide Sam with the extra help he needed, they took his daughter away from him. If Sam could raise his daughter on his own for seven years and Lucy was happy and healthy then they should have realized all he needed was a little extra help for the things he was incapable of doing