Sheesh, Rambi. Don't encourage the guy
Aw heck, K, I was trying to be fair. Maybe he has thought through this more than I could tell from the article.
My personal opinion is that the only way to effect real change would be to raze the entire system and completely rethink our approach- I wish we could.
Can you tell I am an old, burned out social worker?
Still I have some great stories from those years. One of my favorite cases was Stanley, a sweet, very retarded man who was forced out of the state hospital in '78 but whose wife, also a patient there, wasn't allowed to leave. (I have no memory why they were allowed to get married or how that happened.) He was heartbroken and cried the whole time I took him to his room in a licensed home. One weekend, Western State allowed Ruth to visit him, and I got an incensed call from the landlady on Sunday night screaming that Ruth and Stanley had locked themselves in his room, rutted like rabbits the entire weekend, had the other men in the house all riled up, and now Ruth was refusing to go back to the hospital on the bus the way she was supposed to. I had to go drag them out of bed and drive her back to the state hospital 40 miles away. I bribed them out with burgers and shakes.
My husband and I had just started dating and he was with me. He said at the end of the evening, "Next time, could we double date with my friends instead?" |
