Day Care and Bobbi Gentry

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What you might say does Bobbi Gentry's Ode to Billie Joe have to do with day care?

People for decades have scratched their heads trying to figure out what the heck did she and Billie Joe throw off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

When asked Bobbi Gentry said it was a song about indifference that someone we know could die and we don't have feelings about it. Instead we say, "Pass the biscuits, please ... I think I'll have another piece of apple pie."

Are we numbed out? And in particular are people inside state and federal government who are duty bound by law to protect children numbed out? If we can't express our feelings, grieve for those who died what happens in our decision making in life?

As a former child protective service (CPS) social worker I saw many numbed out co-workers. A training I took in the last few years identified that 45% of social workers come from a childhood where they were hurt. How many of that 45% are healed from the devastation they experienced as children? According to one national child abuse center I contacted no studies are known to have been done on that 45%.

Social workers are also day care licensors.

If one is not healed from what happened to them as children denial will come into play when investigating reports of children being abused. You can't see what is too painful to bring to the light of day.

Something to think about as you click on the link and join Bobbi Gentry and her family for dinner as they discuss the death of a young person, Billy Joe McAllister.

A thanks to Tommy and Dick Smothers' creative team for putting together this stark compelling visual to accompany Bobbi Gentry's song.