Ouch! That’s my cornea, you fool! From DJ Times (March 1989): “It has that same…sound that skyrocketed Cynthia into the public’s eye.”
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“The Family Preservation Act is, for the most part, ignored when cases are filed in the Juvenile Court of Cook County,” reports a special committee of the Chicago Bar Association. “Although there may be forms filled out by DCFS [the state Department of Children and Family Services] investigators that imply services were offered,…the fact is that little inquiry is made regarding reasonable efforts [to keep the family together] before cases are filed and children are removed from their parents….The judges are placed in a ‘catch-22′ when they are told that a child is in danger and DCFS does not have the services needed to leave the child at home safely….children are [sometimes] taken from their parents’ custody without any meaningful testimony of reasonable services having been offered to avoid placement of the child in substitute care.”
What’s in a name. Northwestern University’s Celia Berdes, in the newsletter of the Illinois Gerontology Consortium (Summer 1989): “We ought to stop and think before we provide catchy names for new wrinkles in how we think about services. We ought to name things for what they are….The aging network that is not a network, the continuum of care that is not a continuum, and the safety net that is not a net allow us to believe that these things exist and that on our behalf they protect our elderly.”
