tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-807288854433283036.post6168382762661947040..comments2023-10-12T06:12:54.998-07:00Comments on A L I C E ...through the ..LOOKING ..G L A S S..: Social worker of 40 years fails to notice the difference between the role of social worker and Named PersonAlice Moorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-807288854433283036.post-86232364081808687622016-07-13T08:11:30.189-07:002016-07-13T08:11:30.189-07:00David Scott mentioned Colin Turbett`s article on U...David Scott mentioned Colin Turbett`s article on UK Column News recently: `Let`s make the Named Person scheme work - a radical social work view.<br /><br />"He`s defending the Named Person," says Scott. "He says we need a huge increase in resources to make this work. .. It will work; it will be fine, because this is all part of the radical agenda - and by radical he means, of course, communism and he cites a communist leader, a Russian Bolshevik feminist called Alexandra Kollontai. Now she argued that the state had to take over the upbringing of children and he was quoting this woman in support of the Named Person scheme."<br /><br />Here`s another quote:<br /><br />"The Russian Bolshevik and feminist Alexandra Kollontai argued in the 1920s for the socialisation of parenting in order to release women from the burden of caring (and work) that capitalist society places upon them. She assumed that end would come through the development of communism..."<br /><br />"The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia`s communist workers."<br /><br />Read more at: http://www.azquotes.com/author/31404-Alexandra_Kollontai<br /><br />It reminds me too of Hillary Clinton`s view that `it takes a village`to bring up a child.<br />Alice Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05381422778632377553noreply@blogger.com