I was a CASA volunteer for a few years (Court Appointed Special Advocate). A CASA volunteer is appointed to monitor a particular case, spending time with the child, attending the mandatory meetings involving the parent who is working through the required steps to remediate whatever the concerns were that led to the removal of the child, and report to the court of the volunteer's observations and assessments.
I had to quit. Not because there was no need. There was an unending stream of children being removed from harmful situations and put into the system. But by the training to become a volunteer, and more so as I interacted with the staff on my reports to the court, it was clear (sometimes directly stated) that the goal above all else was family reunification. I was counseled not to include anything in my reports that might be upsetting to the parent (as the reports are provided to the parent's attorney and presumably to the parent). This was to avoid the parent from feeling uneasy or unduly judged (even if the judgment was quite *due*). Being censored, and contributing to a system that put returning the child to the parent above the risk of continuing harm to the child... I couldn't do it.
Being involved in the system, then also with a layer of race-based skewing of the data... I doubt I could have last one year much less more.
1. Integrity is a rare commodity. Mr. Mangual has it.
2. It is infuriating to see the neo-racists hurt people they allegedly want to protect. Instead they are protecting some abstract notion which can't even comprehend.
I’m a teacher with 25 years experience in NYS public schools. Children are possessions to be shown off, discarded, manipulated for attention, abused in the most horrific ways possible, and silenced when they object. They are victims of a society with no boundaries, narcissistic adults, pornography, and adult political agendas. My heart breaks for them. 💔
Well, this is what over half a century of doling out welfare and other subsidies to single mothers will do: create generations of intellectually impoverished, unmotivated, angry people -- many of whom are drug addicted and incapable of controlling their fists.
Bad enough that they maim and murder their own children. Or produce pint-sized gangstas with big guns; who, years later, walk half-dressed and deranged among us.
But they are also dragging hardworking black families into their own dysfunction. Because those gangstas can't shoot straight, the nights are riven by idiot shouting and the loud noise that passes for music, and the mornings are littered with the leftover revels of people who should have been in bed and getting up to go to jobs -- like the rest of us, and like the black people whose neighborhoods are turned into slums by their vicious brethren.
One day the black community will say "Enough!" to the race hustlers who call them Uncle Toms for living law-abiding, normal lives and wanting their kids to do likewise.
just for fun I went though the comments on the Times article. Here is a simple break down:
Bewildered readers who can't understand how it could a racist structure when most of the employees and leadership are black and the data that shows black kids are more likely to die at the hands of black family.
Readers who argue lack of a two parent household and problems within the black community which no one wants to talk about are primarily responsible.
New-racists (Anti-racists) who claim racism and white supremacy is responsible. These were actually the fewest.
Hooray for Rafael Mangual! We need more leaders like this who stand up for children's rights. Beaten, raped, berated, starved and unloved kids aren't concerned about their perpetrators' rights. Who else will speak for the most vulnerable among us?
This time in our history will come to be known as the dark age for children. What I do see is numerous opportunities for the kids in the Midwest to excel in life while the kids from the coasts and elitist large cities run by Dems will have dim futures ahead of them selves. The coasts, especially CA are becoming third world type autocracies. Maybe theocracy is a more succinct word to use.
Child welfare is a HARD world. As a former foster mom I saw so many situations where I felt equally sorry for the child(ren), the parents (who are functioning out of their own trauma) and the welfare worker, sandwiched in the middle, trying to navigate the complicated system where common sense is often regulated into oblivion.
I applaud you, Mr. Mangual, for standing upon principle, and I sincerely hope your stand and your article here at TFP will bring attention to more than just the retributive racial policies within an already-broken system.
Too many progressives are afraid of the truth when it conflicts with a predetermined world view. Even ugly truths are important to recognize and understand.
I am increasingly convinced it's not just ideology that drives this madness but a concerted effort to impoverish and hurt populations. Then the affluent and established interests have less competition for their perks and privileges.
Mm. Here in Washington state, I do believe we’ve done away with any worries about parents who use drugs around children. Oh sure, they just have to have a “safety plan” in place for when they get the hankering to get high and their kids are around. Didn’t work out so well for some kids, including the most recent victim, 4 year old Ariel Garcia, who was allegedly stabbed to death by his meth addict mom.
I feel this is a stereotypical DEI example of cherry picking data and redesigning an entire system to a fault without proper foresight. These myriad examples show either ignorance, corruption, or both. This is why people are against DEI, because it is so untethered from reality and basic and necessary checks and balances. Ithink many people feel the bad outweighs the good of DEI and has for some time. I try to fight for common sense DEI when I can, but the overall mistakes are just so monumentally bad.
I was a CASA volunteer for a few years (Court Appointed Special Advocate). A CASA volunteer is appointed to monitor a particular case, spending time with the child, attending the mandatory meetings involving the parent who is working through the required steps to remediate whatever the concerns were that led to the removal of the child, and report to the court of the volunteer's observations and assessments.
I had to quit. Not because there was no need. There was an unending stream of children being removed from harmful situations and put into the system. But by the training to become a volunteer, and more so as I interacted with the staff on my reports to the court, it was clear (sometimes directly stated) that the goal above all else was family reunification. I was counseled not to include anything in my reports that might be upsetting to the parent (as the reports are provided to the parent's attorney and presumably to the parent). This was to avoid the parent from feeling uneasy or unduly judged (even if the judgment was quite *due*). Being censored, and contributing to a system that put returning the child to the parent above the risk of continuing harm to the child... I couldn't do it.
Being involved in the system, then also with a layer of race-based skewing of the data... I doubt I could have last one year much less more.
1. Integrity is a rare commodity. Mr. Mangual has it.
2. It is infuriating to see the neo-racists hurt people they allegedly want to protect. Instead they are protecting some abstract notion which can't even comprehend.
I’m a teacher with 25 years experience in NYS public schools. Children are possessions to be shown off, discarded, manipulated for attention, abused in the most horrific ways possible, and silenced when they object. They are victims of a society with no boundaries, narcissistic adults, pornography, and adult political agendas. My heart breaks for them. 💔
I have taught special education for 30 years and am seeing the same reactions - ignore, excuse, don't create a problem.
I commend Mr. Mangual for his thoughtfulness, courage and sense of morality. We need more people like you.
Well, this is what over half a century of doling out welfare and other subsidies to single mothers will do: create generations of intellectually impoverished, unmotivated, angry people -- many of whom are drug addicted and incapable of controlling their fists.
Bad enough that they maim and murder their own children. Or produce pint-sized gangstas with big guns; who, years later, walk half-dressed and deranged among us.
But they are also dragging hardworking black families into their own dysfunction. Because those gangstas can't shoot straight, the nights are riven by idiot shouting and the loud noise that passes for music, and the mornings are littered with the leftover revels of people who should have been in bed and getting up to go to jobs -- like the rest of us, and like the black people whose neighborhoods are turned into slums by their vicious brethren.
One day the black community will say "Enough!" to the race hustlers who call them Uncle Toms for living law-abiding, normal lives and wanting their kids to do likewise.
just for fun I went though the comments on the Times article. Here is a simple break down:
Bewildered readers who can't understand how it could a racist structure when most of the employees and leadership are black and the data that shows black kids are more likely to die at the hands of black family.
Readers who argue lack of a two parent household and problems within the black community which no one wants to talk about are primarily responsible.
New-racists (Anti-racists) who claim racism and white supremacy is responsible. These were actually the fewest.
Hooray for Rafael Mangual! We need more leaders like this who stand up for children's rights. Beaten, raped, berated, starved and unloved kids aren't concerned about their perpetrators' rights. Who else will speak for the most vulnerable among us?
This time in our history will come to be known as the dark age for children. What I do see is numerous opportunities for the kids in the Midwest to excel in life while the kids from the coasts and elitist large cities run by Dems will have dim futures ahead of them selves. The coasts, especially CA are becoming third world type autocracies. Maybe theocracy is a more succinct word to use.
Child welfare is a HARD world. As a former foster mom I saw so many situations where I felt equally sorry for the child(ren), the parents (who are functioning out of their own trauma) and the welfare worker, sandwiched in the middle, trying to navigate the complicated system where common sense is often regulated into oblivion.
I applaud you, Mr. Mangual, for standing upon principle, and I sincerely hope your stand and your article here at TFP will bring attention to more than just the retributive racial policies within an already-broken system.
Too many progressives are afraid of the truth when it conflicts with a predetermined world view. Even ugly truths are important to recognize and understand.
I am increasingly convinced it's not just ideology that drives this madness but a concerted effort to impoverish and hurt populations. Then the affluent and established interests have less competition for their perks and privileges.
This is what happens when The Narrative (TM) is placed ahead of facts, and indeed, ahead of lives.
"I hope my resignation will raise the alarm....". Don't hold your breath.
Mm. Here in Washington state, I do believe we’ve done away with any worries about parents who use drugs around children. Oh sure, they just have to have a “safety plan” in place for when they get the hankering to get high and their kids are around. Didn’t work out so well for some kids, including the most recent victim, 4 year old Ariel Garcia, who was allegedly stabbed to death by his meth addict mom.
Naturally, they are probably asking for a larger budget in order to do less.
I feel this is a stereotypical DEI example of cherry picking data and redesigning an entire system to a fault without proper foresight. These myriad examples show either ignorance, corruption, or both. This is why people are against DEI, because it is so untethered from reality and basic and necessary checks and balances. Ithink many people feel the bad outweighs the good of DEI and has for some time. I try to fight for common sense DEI when I can, but the overall mistakes are just so monumentally bad.