The Problem Of Social Media

The next article that was reviewed was focused on a service that is provided for parents struggling with substance abuse. The service is called Family Drug Court and is also referred to as FDC. The FDC is a child welfare court that specifically deals with parental substance abuse cases. This court system helps the parents quickly receive drug treatment that is needed, offers a more structured system for the parents and child, and also holds the parents to higher accountability for recovery. According to Margaret Lloyd, "Testa and Smith (2009) rigorously reviewed the literature and found that substance abuse is reported in 11-14% of investigated child welfare cases and in 50-79% of cases where the child is removed and placed in out-of-home care." The goal of the FDC is to

The child welfare system according to “Parental Substance use and the Child Welfare System” (2009) include services and programs aimed to improve the well-being of children by making sure of their safety, achieving permanency, and by increasing the strength of families to successfully care for the children (Parental Substance Use and the Child Welfare System, 2009). Parental substance abuse has been linked to maltreatment and inadequacy to provide suitable care for children. This paper will be divided into headings as follows: needs for assessment, problem statement, goals and objectives of the National Center for Substance Abuse and Child Welfare (NCSACW), program design, and evidenced-based intervention

The need for FDTC in Northern California was to decriminalize women with children who use drugs, and also when needed to provide parents or guardians parenting education (Somervell, Saylor & Mao, 2005). According to Worcel, Furrer, Green, Burrus, & Finigan, 2008, for many years, child welfare has had problems providing effective services to families with substance abuse issues and as a result those families have the lowest probability of reunifying with their

It is this writer’s belief that these babies should be cared for by another family member or child welfare agency until the mother can prove that she is responsible. This would be measured by the mother attending counseling sessions where she learns about the dangers of drug abuse and she would also undergo random drug testing to assure the child will be safe in her care.

On December 31, 2005, 2,320,359 people were incarcerated in the United States. Of these inmates, 107,518 were female. As of 2004, the most recent date for which statistics are available, it is estimated that there are approximately 2.8 million children of incarcerated parents. Of this number, approximately 320,000 are children of incarcerated mothers. The problem with these estimates is that at best, they are an educated guess. Most states lack uniform methods of recording the demographic information regarding an inmate’s children. Moreover, many inmates may choose not to identify their children for the fear of the possibility

In this paper, the problem I will be addressing is substance use during pregnancy. This social issue has been ongoing for over 30 years. Policymakers have debated tirelessly on how to deal with the issue of prenatal exposure to controlled substances, while pregnant women have been prosecuted for using drugs during their pregnancy in a number of states since the late 1980’s (Dailard, Nash 2000). These women are usually prosecuted under child abuse statutes, even when the child has no apparent sign of physical harm. Presently, there is still no national consensus on this issue, leaving many women vulnerable to prosecution (Jessup, 2003). It is easy for us to want to criminalize

However, given that perpetrators often continue to have a relationship with their children even if the relationship with the parents ends, it’s important to help ensure that the perpetrator is not a threat to the children. This is especially true given that studies have found there is some overlap in the occurrence between DV and child abuse. Not surprisingly, my interest in the law closely aligns with my interest in DV. My research focus is restorative and rehabilitative justice alternatives to traditional deterrent and punitive measures, especially for DV perpetrators I’m interested in the laws and procedures pertaining to DV, including protective orders, visitations for children, child custody agreements, maintenance agreements, and so on. Although I will be a part of the CLS department, I hope to continue to work closely with the PSB department and the law school, in order to continue gain a more comprehensive understanding of the issues being studied. To fully understand the issue surrounding DV, a working knowledge and familiarity with the laws, policy, and procedures surrounding DV is extremely beneficial. Additionally, the psychological impact to those exposed to DV should also be considered, which is why I hope to continue to work closely with the PSB department. My ultimate goal is to continue to do interdisciplinary research into DV and its effects on those touched by DV. Eventually taking the research on DV into the real world and helping to improve policy, laws, and procedures surrounding the issue. Through law school I will gain the expertise of the laws impacting those touched by DV helping in the understanding of their effects. Additionally, law school will give me a better understanding of the judicial system which will be helpful to one day lobby for policy

Over the course of five years Barbara Harris and her husband adopted four children. All four children were born to the same mother and all four children were born addicted to drugs such as PCP, crack and heroin. This same mother had given birth to four drug-addicted children prior to the children Barbara adopted. Barbara, outraged that so many drug-addicted children could be born to one mother, attempted to pass a bill requiring drug-addicted mothers to get on birth control before leaving the hospital after giving birth. When this bill failed to pass, Barbara started her own program called Project Prevention. Project Prevention paid drug-addicted mothers $200 (now $300) to get sterilized or on birth control as a means of reducing the amount of drug-addicted babies being born. While the motives come from a place of good intentions, this attempt at eugenics, an attempt to improve the human race by breeding desirable hereditary traits (The American Heritage® Science

Traditionally the U.S. sends noncustodial parents that do not pay child support to jail for contempt, however this has been an ineffective method. [3] It is pretty hard to pay child support when one is imprisoned, most times people don’t pay child support not because they don’t want to it may be they just can’t. [4] “So instead of sending already financially struggling parents to jail, more than half of states now have programs to help noncustodial parents overcome the barriers that are keeping them from making good on their child support payments”. [5]

neither the less, many, many times when a parent is in the same household as their children, who are consuming drugs, this means there is a lot of neglection towards the children.As a result, there has been many cases that have had to do with child abuse and its most likely that the parent was on drugs. From cases of abuse, rape, trading for drugs, to leaving the child unattended to be hurt. The innocence of the matter is that children who experience this abuse are most likely to receive Depression, Drug Addiction, Schizophrenia, and many, many health problems, addressed from the studies of Harvard University. The types of abuse range from physical, sexual, verbal, and emotional abuse. Again, how are we going to change this is the real question to focus on and find solutions for. This is where CPS, Protective Services, the name of a government agency responsible for providing protection to children, in addition, investigates families who are suspicious for abuse and neglect of children in the household. I've come to believe that CPS should do monthly investigations by obtaining a search warrant or for it to be allowed to do so. Nonetheless, this is so CPS can make sure children are safe in their household, and that there is no drug abuse or any abuse around and to their children. CPS can go from house to house talking to parents finding anything suspicious

Their findings show that low income women are more likely to abuse drugs while pregnant and that there is a variety of illicit drugs used during gestation. As a result of this and other studies on the damaging effects of drug use during pregnancy, states such as Illinois, California, and Minnesota have passed laws that either require pregnant women to report urine test or that the affected infant be reported to state child protection services (Chasnoff, Landress and Barrett 1990). Cocaine by itself is not responsible for the lowered health status of the mother and the infant. Instead, social issues such as poverty and a lack of prenatal care are both direct and indirect causes to this serious

A law passed recently in Tennessee allows the state to criminally charge pregnant women with assault if their child is born testing positive for illicit drugs or has been harmed due to drug use. Tennessee is the first state in the United States to pass this law. The only way a woman can mitigate the legal consequences is if she voluntarily enrolls herself into long-term drug rehabilitation treatment and completes the program during or after her pregnancy. There are two social problems that are being caused by this policy: the separation of mother and newborn in the most critical stages of a baby’s development, as well as the disparities being created among pregnant drug users who are poor and have a lack of quality medical, social and

When you are suffering from a debilitating addiction, it 's easy to feel alone, isolated, and frightened during recovery. However, the emergence of social media has helped connect the world in a way never imagined. And you can tap into these brand new resource as a tool towards fueling our recovery and regaining a life of sobriety.

While facing this epidemic of addiction in our world today, we have also been suffered with the decision of throwing people in jail or sending them to rehab. Most of our problems today is that we would rather lock away the problem then try to treat it, this is the same for pregnant women and women who use drugs during pregnancy. In 2014, the state of Tennessee passed a law allowing the criminalization of pregnant woman who abuse substances. Two years later the law died and was revoked. According to Huffington Post, the law was leading to women not getting care while pregnant and not seeking treatment for drug addiction (2016). As can be seen with this law in Tennessee, no good outcomes can occur from throwing women in jail and taking their babies. ACOG states that, “putting pregnant women in jail, where substances may be more available, but treatment is not, jeopardizes the health of pregnant women and that of their existing and future children” (ACOG, p. 5, 2012). When we treat pregnant women, who have a

Groundswell is a book that focuses on the power of social media and how businesses have to learn to harness this power to remain competitive. The book is full of practical ideas of how the groundswell works, why it is so important in today’s business world and how to use it to maximize your marketing potential. The book gives examples of how some well known companies use social networks, blogs and other online platforms to learn how customers feel about their products and also provides explicit tactics to guide companies in using the groundswell in their own businesses. I think this is a great book if you are just beginning to think about how to use digital media for your business or if you are trying to learn how to connect people with social technology. It is not a difficult read as it explains concepts and ideas in a simple and direct way. The groundswell gave me a good perspective and firm knowledge base on the untapped potential of social networks.