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Mardell Lessig
Dec 19, 2023, 7:58:28 PM12/19/23
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Turning from the psychological literature to the sociological shedslight on self-injury from a different angle. Patricia and Peter Adler,who conducted in-depth interviews with eighty non-institutionalizedparticipants who self-injure, as well as studying Internet communitiesfor people who self-injure, take issue with what they see as a denial ofagency in the clinical literature. "The psychomedical disease model,"they argue, "overlooks the way self-injurers use their customary andordinary sociological decision-making processes." Stressing theimportance of self-expression, they add that "self-injury represents, inpart, a complex social process of symbolic interaction rather thanpurely a medical problem."[11] Self-injury creates, communicates, and absorbs meaning.
Under the current administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abandoned their pre-existing enforcement priorities. Instead of targeting immigrants who present a risk to public safety, the agency began arresting anyone in the United States without legal status.
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A couple of weeks then passed. The social services agency made a motion to strike minor's appellate brief based on its lack of evidentiary foundation. Appellate counsel (who, as she explained at oral argument, had had a death in the family and had not been able to prepare a formal motion to take evidence to accompany her minor's brief when it was filed), then made a motion to take additional evidence. fn. 6 The additional evidence went beyond the mere possibility that the placement might fail. By the time it was made, it had failed. Counsel's declaration averred that she had just learned that the two boys had already been returned to Orangewood Children's Home. (The return took place sometime between January 19, 2002 and February 7, 2002.)
For its part, the social services agency stresses that the minors' trial counsel filed no appeal, and that nothing as yet regarding actual unadoptability has been found, as a matter of fact, by a trial court.
First, as underscored by recent scandals regarding abuse in foster care placements in Southern California (fortunately, as far as we are aware, none regarding the particular county social service agency before the court here), the Legislature has wisely authorized minors' counsel to monitor possible problems in placement. After all, social workers were the ones who made the actual placement in the first place, and they may have reasons to continue it that may not be completely in sync with the minors' best interests (including psychological vesting, and internal bureaucratic pressures for high adoption statistics). It is the minor's counsel who has the most incentive to bring any problems with a placement to a court's attention.
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Under the current administration, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) abandoned their pre-existing enforcement priorities. Instead of targeting immigrants who present a risk to public safety, the agency began arresting anyone in the United States without legal status.
Melissa.little Agency
DOWNLOAD https://mciun.com/2wQVLI
A couple of weeks then passed. The social services agency made a motion to strike minor's appellate brief based on its lack of evidentiary foundation. Appellate counsel (who, as she explained at oral argument, had had a death in the family and had not been able to prepare a formal motion to take evidence to accompany her minor's brief when it was filed), then made a motion to take additional evidence. fn. 6 The additional evidence went beyond the mere possibility that the placement might fail. By the time it was made, it had failed. Counsel's declaration averred that she had just learned that the two boys had already been returned to Orangewood Children's Home. (The return took place sometime between January 19, 2002 and February 7, 2002.)
For its part, the social services agency stresses that the minors' trial counsel filed no appeal, and that nothing as yet regarding actual unadoptability has been found, as a matter of fact, by a trial court.
First, as underscored by recent scandals regarding abuse in foster care placements in Southern California (fortunately, as far as we are aware, none regarding the particular county social service agency before the court here), the Legislature has wisely authorized minors' counsel to monitor possible problems in placement. After all, social workers were the ones who made the actual placement in the first place, and they may have reasons to continue it that may not be completely in sync with the minors' best interests (including psychological vesting, and internal bureaucratic pressures for high adoption statistics). It is the minor's counsel who has the most incentive to bring any problems with a placement to a court's attention.
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