During by time as a law student, I was called a liberal and social worker by my politically conservative class mates. Do you remember the term young republicans? I went to school with a lot of young republicans. I would hear comments from the back room of class that I should be a lawyer for social work agencies because I would cay when briefing a case that society should judge what is right or wrong in come cases not the law courts.

I am not a liberal. I was not one in law school and I am not one now. But from my studies I can see how those who promote justice based on societal and environmental factors think and believe. I studied sociology as an undergrad and it was my minor to my major of political science.

If you see some of the movies from the sixties and fifties where a social worker, usually an attractive young woman who is trying to help the young handsome man with his anger toward society. He is angry because society simply has not given him a fair deal. That is why he is such a rebel. Marlon Brando played a biker who would disrupt society everywhere he went. The movie goers felt his pain and sided with his rebel ways.

People with conservative views towards politics and society argue that it is not society who is fault if someone is not living a proper life. Conservatives argue that everyone has responsibility for their own actions. If you break the law, if you end up out of work, if you do not have an education, then it is your fault not society’s fault.

But the social worker, or at least those with degrees in sociology will say that a person who is raised for instance in the ghetto in a one parent family living in a neighborhood filled with illegal activity like illegal drug dealing, illegal gambling, and prostitution has many disadvantages compared to a person raised in an upper class family with two parents living in a nice home on a street unfamiliar to crime.

I worked the ghetto as a sales representative. I worked the rich side of town as a sales representative. Guess where I would choose to grow up or raise a family. Listen no matter how driven a child is, no matter how smart a child is, growing up in the ghetto is not easy compared to growing up in an upper class area with two parents.

People still have self responsibility no matter where they live however. If you live in the ghetto and decide to live a life a crime or if you live on the rich side of town and decide to live a life of crime, it is still a decision you made. It helps no one to blame society for the decision you made.

Many young people live in crime infested jungles. They live in area controlled by drug dealers. They do not want to hear about how their environment is holding them back. They simply want out. And social work agencies can help them get out.

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