When I went to law school the politically conservative students called me the social worker because of my relative conservative beliefs. They would mutter from the back of the class when I was discussing a legal case I thought would be better decided by society rather than the strict rule of law that I should become a lawyer for social work agencies.

I am not a liberal. I was not one in law school and I am not one now. But from my studies I can see how those who promote justice based on societal and environmental factors think and believe. I studied sociology as an undergrad and it was my minor to my major of political science.

If you see some of the movies from the sixties and fifties where a social worker, usually an attractive young woman who is trying to help the young handsome man with his anger toward society. He is angry because society simply has not given him a fair deal. That is why he is such a rebel. Marlon Brando played a biker who would disrupt society everywhere he went. The movie goers felt his pain and sided with his rebel ways.

Conservatives have two words for the rebel; self responsibility. If you break the law the conservative says it is your fault. If you do not have a job conservative say it is your fault. If you do not have an education, the conservative will say it is your fault.

However, the modern student of sociology takes into account the environment a child is raised in and believes that one is naturally affected by, thereby makes decisions based upon, the environment one grows up in. If you grow up in an area run by drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes then this will have a negative influence on your development. Compared to a child in lives in a nice part of town, the child in the ghetto has a disadvantage.

I worked the ghetto as a sales representative. I worked the rich side of town as a sales representative. Guess where I would choose to grow up or raise a family. Listen no matter how driven a child is, no matter how smart a child is, growing up in the ghetto is not easy compared to growing up in an upper class area with two parents.

This is not to say that those who decide to forget school and join the ranks of the drug dealers or other law breakers do not have personal responsibility for their acts, they do. But social workers do not need conservatives calling them bleeding heart liberals.

But there are several children residing in a crime filled jungle of depression and disillusion. Many want out. They do not want to hear about their environment and they do not need others to feel sorry for them. They simply want someone to lend them a hand so they can pull themselves up. And that is where social work agencies can help.

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