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...TEACHER AND PSYCHOLOGY GRADUate who has worked with children for 40 years, I know the child always loves the parent, even if that child is being neglected or mistreated. When a child begs not to be returned to her mother, something is certainly terribly wrong. Please listen to the children. Elisa's pain and humiliation were heartbreaking. SURVIVOR OF CHILD ABUSE Gloucester, Ontario...
...SHORTCUT, by David Macaulay (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a funny, silly and exceedingly complicated adventure (Agatha Christie would have rejected the plot as too intricate) that is just right for an alert six-year-old and a wide-awake parent. The gifted artist, whose books Castle and Cathedral brought medieval architecture to life, starts with a farmer and his horse taking a load of melons to market and winds up dealing with a runaway train, a lost pig, an escaped hot-air balloon and more. All logical, too, if your eyes are sharp...
...sixth sense about the data their five senses gather today. Certainly many people outrank them in the child-welfare hierarchy, yet their views carry the greatest weight. Only they "walk up the drug-filled staircase, sit on the dirty couch and talk to the teenage mother," says Marc Parent, who spent four years as a caseworker in New York City. As the Elisa Izquierdo case demonstrates, "if you get a caseworker who goes to somebody's home and says it's fine, then it's fine," notes Parent. "That's how important their voice is." They get no public recognition...
...even the most dedicated caseworkers make mistakes. Marc Parent remembers vividly the 1990 Bronx case that finally broke his spirit. On the last call of a long night shift, Parent and his partner mounted six flights of stairs, passing drug dealers and crack addicts, in search of the mother in her late 20s who was reportedly neglecting her child. When they entered the apartment, they encountered mice and five filthy children, some naked, some half-dressed. Though Parent inspected the infant in question, he didn't unwrap the baby's blanket to look at the body or take the child...
...deep source of frustration, certainly, is that no solution seems adequate to the pain and suffering that caseworkers see every day. Says Parent: "As you got there to check on the safety of one child, you felt like every child, everyone in the building or in the whole block, should be removed." Marsha Hurda, a veteran social worker and Davis' colleague, used to handle only cases that were already in the court system. "Back then," she says, "I used to feel like an avenging angel. I felt good that I was able to keep...