It's an interesting article published yesterday in the Washington Post that UNICEF ranked US and Britain the lowest in the child welfare survey. The article says, "...The Netherlands, followed by Sweden, Denmark and Finland, finished at the top of the rankings, while the United States was 20th and Britain 21st, according to the report released Wednesday in Germany by UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency. One of the study's researchers, Jonathan Bradshaw, said children fared worse in the United States and Britain -- despite high overall levels of national wealth -- because of greater economic inequality and poor levels of public support for families".
As a child welfare professional, it concerns all of us. Are we failing as a profession?
Friday, February 16, 2007
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