The "Christmas Visit"

The "Christmas Visit"

AFRA EDITORIALS
Guest editorial by Carolynn J. Middleton BA BSc
December 26, 2010

The "Christmas Visit"

To many families the Christmas holidays spell a time of sorrow, sadness, and loss. From children who are being abused and/or neglected, either in the family home or in foster care to child protection agencies more concerned about their bureaucracy than they are about broken hearts and family devastation.

For a month, the mother of four had been planning the best Christmas for her family she could. The eldest child, uncontrollable, was in foster care, the three others in her care and her loving husband, the children's father forbidden to see the children because of suspicion of molestation, neither proven nor substantiated.

But all arrangements were made and the father was being permitted to come home for Christmas day and be with the children, the eldest would also be home for that special day, under supervision. However, only a few days before the big event, a new family services worker was appointed to this family and she was adamantly opposed to the father or the eldest child attending the family home for this big event. The mother was crushed by this sudden announcement, but this family worker didn't seem to care one little bit.

I find myself wondering, as this woman, this worker, this person sits down with her parents, family, and friends, on this most auspicious day, to the turkey dinner, and loving conversation, if she had given one single thought to the number of family dinners, family days, and family events she ruined, as par for the course of her work with the Children's Aid Society of Hamilton.

I mean we're not talking about children who were badly abused, neglected, and/or molested on numerous occasions. We're talking about one single allegation of molestation that has not been substantiated with any kind of real evidence, and a wild child who made this allegation in the first place. One would think, in the spirit of Christmas, this worker would loosen the bureaucratic chains that bind this family on this one day, if for no other reason that to see what, if anything, would happen, as a result.

But no. To this woman, this family is but a number on some manila folder of some kind. A file posted on a computer somewhere and doesn't really mean one single thing to her at all. My guess... She didn't give a single solitary thought about this family, who's big day she ruined, as she sat, and laughed, and felt the joy and love of the season with family and friends.

Woe to those who do not share this special time of the season with others...

Sincerely,

Carolynn J. Middleton BA BSc
( Executive Secretary )
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