Child Welfare For Rehabilitation Of Families: Article Analysis

When I read my article and try to summarize it, I think of how far we have come in social work. This article was written back in 1979 by Joseph Reid of Lima and comes from the book Child Welfare Perspectives. In his article titled “The responsibility of family and children’s agencies for rehabilitation of families”, it states the responsibilities of the family and the agency to reunify the child back into the home. The article goes over the different views of the family and of different Social Workers that have the same common philosophy of what their job entails, but sometimes their personal experiences of past cases can hinder or be just the exact kind of impact the case needs to move forward with the placement of the child. That is one …show more content…
The impact of social inequality in this article lies on the responsibility of the facility and the families. In this article it is explained that back in 1979 that some 3800 private and public facilities did not have trained Social Workers in their facilities. This led to the employees of such places not knowing how to fully use resources or have the skills to help the family into rehabilitation. I am sure however, that there were more fully functioning facilities throughout the country as well that used the resources they were given the best they could at the time. The families’ impact on the rehabilitation process comes from the lack of resources given to them and from the lack of trying on their part solely from the statements of this article. The article states that some …show more content…
The parent at that time if they chose to not co-operate or don’t have the proper resources to attend programs they will not get their child back and the child at the time will go into foster care. The debate between the family and the agency is that for the family they aren’t given the proper resources to attend the visits and programs. While on the other hand the agency might not have the proper resources to offer them to get to their visits and programs, so without those being completed, the child cannot be rehabilitated into the family. The agencies debate for why children would not be reunified to their families, is that some families like I said above were never really families at all. That the parents in this situation lack responsibility of nourishing their child and that of which, made them not a family at all. Thus, being not worthy of being reunified with their child and placed into foster care because the parents do not attend the visits or programs. On the other side, the parents that would like to be reunified with their child but can’t because of the location of the facility and limited resources usually go past the allotted time to reunify with their child and end up getting their stuck in the foster