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Chapter 5 Values and Ethical Dilemmas
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Betty is advising a welfare recipient on how to deal with a welfare worker. The worker is required by law to ask the client where her former husband is and to give his Social Security number. Then the worker will turn over this information to the Department of Revenue, which will pursue the man aggressively for support. The welfare recipient knows where her former husband is, but is afraid to tell the worker because her husband had beaten her and she fears he would be abusive to her again. The woman asked what she should do. Betty knows it is wrong to lie to the worker, yet she also knows that it would be in the woman’s best interest to tell the worker that she doesn’t know where her former husband is. What should Betty tell the woman? What would you do?
Linda is a case worker in the child welfare department. The school guidance counselor has reported a mother for neglect of her child. The child is malnourished and listless. She cannot apply herself to her studies. Linda talked with the mother and found out that she formerly had received money from Transitional Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), but had reached that state’s two-year time limit and had been cut off from TANF. She tried to feed her child and often went hungry herself, but even with food stamps, she did not have enough money to feed the child adequately.
Linda’s supervisor advised her to place the child in foster care, but Linda knew that the agency did not have enough good foster parents and was having trouble recruiting them because so many women were working, and the agency did not pay enough to foster parents to make it worth their while to be foster parents. She could place the child in a foster home where there were already more children than the agency usually allowed, but would the child be any better off than in her own home? It would be traumatic for the child to be taken from her mother whom she loved. Yet she would probably get enough to eat in this foster home, even though the foster mother would not be able to give her the attention that she needs. What should Linda do?
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