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When I was writing this address, my wife suggested at this point that I sounded too much like a prophet of doom, and that I should finish up on a positive note. So I thought I would say that residential work would always be needed, and that no one need fear for their jobs, because . . . But the reasons for this statement are all in the doomwatch category, increasing teenage marriage and its casualities, increasing drug-abuse and alcoholism in young people of child-rearing age, increasing divorce, increasing racial problems, and so on and on. So I think I will finish with the thought however things are organised, residential child care is still going to need the eternal qualities of loving-kindness, and understanding and tolerance. And understanding must include understanding the child’s need to be under control, and loving kindness must be extended to the child’s parents because they are part of him. And tolerance does not have to be extended to iniquities perpetrated by the child or to the child by individuals or by society. Finally, if there is an extra quality that residential workers are going to need, and which has not been so obvious of late, it is a bit of aggression, or combativeness, or self-assertion. We must be prepared to fight for what we see as right for the child and for society. |
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