• UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz
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    15 hours ago

    The reason for the foster care is stated in the article:

    But a social worker from the Children and Family Court Advisory Service CAFCASS said she believed Lucy had been neglected, underfed and under stimulated.

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      15 hours ago

      The Reason is that they are imprisoned.

      Also Social Worker has no qualifications for making such statementents

      They should have asked a psychiatrist or a paediatrician to assess this

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          13 hours ago

          The fact that they quote testimony from a social worker and not from a qualified person?

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              10 hours ago

              Since when is it the job of a social worker or part of their studies to perform medical assessments of children?

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                8 hours ago

                It’s part of their studies depending on discipline. My wife is one and used to work for DCFS doing foster home assessments. You need special training and licensing, part of which covers identifying signs of abuse and neglect.

                You’re challenging their credentials and literally have no idea what you’re talking about.

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                  8 hours ago

                  In the US they let people with no clue of medicine practice as coroner’s. Maybe your wife can detect signs of trauma. In the court I would still like the opinion of a trained MD

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                    7 hours ago

                    Meanwhile the social worker has handled more cases of neglect, malnourishment and abuse in the last year than the MD will have seen in his entire career. Do you know who that MD calls when they think there might be abuse? The social worker. Because that’s literally their job.

                    This is a weird hill to die on.