Cynthia Lombard
Introduction to Social Work
Journal Entry #1
Pick a population or situation that you would have a very difficult time working with? And
why?
A population that I would have a hard time to work with would be abused children. Even
though I work in child welfare I am not in direct contact with the children and I don’t get to see
them when they are removed from their home due to child abuse or neglect. What makes it so
hard for me is that I have a desire to have kids and when I hear stories that children are being
placed in dumpers, on the side of the streets and being left in a hospital breaks my heart.
Whenever I hear stories I often think to myself I am waiting to be blessed with a child and there