| iv id="body"> | | | | To remain silent about the DSS failure to protect |
| The Department of Social Services (DSS) in every | | | | children is to be complicit. Massachusetts' citizens |
| state oversees all child abuse cases and foster care. | | | | need to remind DSS of their fiduciary responsibility |
| The DSS is charged with the protection of children | | | | and first priority is protecting children and stopping all |
| and therefore have a fiduciary responsibility to be in | | | | forms of child abuse. Studies show that |
| the forefront of reform. | | | | approximately half of all child abuse cases in |
| However, the Massachusetts DSS has, despite | | | | Massachusetts are the result of 'legal corporal |
| support from dozens of other Massachusetts | | | | punishment.' About 2,000 children die and nearly |
| organizations, as well as legislators, activists and | | | | 150,000 children are injured in the US each year from |
| voters, rejected all proposed laws to abolish corporal | | | | 'legal corporal punishment.' |
| punishment of children, even hitting and disciplining | | | | Massachusetts citizens need to contact, DSS |
| children with hot-sauce as young as less-than-one | | | | Commissioner Harry Spence, at |
| year! Ironically, the Massachusetts DSS is standing in | | | | harry.spence@state.ma.us with a Copy to the Boston |
| the way of legal reform to protect children! | | | | Globe at As well as calling DSS at: (617) 748-2000 or |
| Every adult is responsible for the protection of | | | | (617) 748-2329. |
| children. "We are not only responsible for what we | | | | The time is past due for those who are mandated to |
| do, but also, for that what we don't do." -Voltaire | | | | protect children to become proactive in abolishing |
| The worst way you can choose is to choose no way | | | | abuse, and not wait until after a child is injured or |
| at all." -Friedrich II | | | | dead. |