The work of a child care worker appears to be a demanding profession that promotes the safety of the child, but also strengthens the family organization surrounding the child for be able to raise children successfully. These child care workers work in the system known as Child Protective Services, whose initiative is to protect the overall well-being of the child. The short novel From the Eye of the Storm: the Experiences of a Child Welfare Worker by Cynthia Crosson-Tower demonstrates the skills needed to navigate social work practice along with its challenges and happy moments. The novel consists of a few cases involving Tower's actual career in social work. By reading the book, I was able to experience some real cases where children faced physical and mental abuse from their families which led to them ending up within the system. Additionally, some of these children have had trouble adjusting to foster and adoptive families due to problems they faced earlier in life. As we learned earlier in the course, the violence a child experiences early in life has an overall effect on the person they will become as they grow into adulthood. When children face adverse childhood experiences, they are at greater risk of abusing drugs and/or alcohol, a greater likelihood of abusing their own children or their spouse, higher rates of violent and nonviolent criminal behavior, along with many other problems over the course of their lives. One of the cases found in Cynthia Crosson-Tower's novel involved a little girl named Jessica Barton. Although she was still a small child, her adoptive family had problems trying to raise her in which she gave them behavioral problems that she did not respond to and was difficult to ... middle of paper ......ild The social worker includes excitement, joy, sadness, frustration, fear and sometimes harmony once the baby is successfully inserted. Overall, I have no doubts about what happens within Child Protective Services because Toler's experiences and cases are well established in his book. I was surprised by some of the ways the children were handled, whether with the adoptive parent, adoptive parents, or biological parents. Regardless, every child deserves a chance within the system; it concerns the best interests of the child and the interests of families and parents. Works Cited Crosson-Tower, Cynthia. From the eye of the storm: The experiences of a child welfare worker. Boston: Pearson Education Inc., 2003. Print.Garbarino, James. Raising children in a socially toxic environment. San Francisco, California: Jossey-Bass, 1995. Print.