As a result, the way people with disabilities were treated and cared for has changed a lot from today. In saying that, I should consider the situation over the years the film takes place, and then again for the present moment. If I lived in 1964, when Phoebe was born, and I worked as a social worker, I would help Caroline do the right thing for the baby. Whether it was to tell the mother what her husband was doing or if the family decided not to keep the child, I would help Caroline adopt the baby as her own. However, if the movie was set in the present day, as a social worker I would have more authority and power to see if the father simply made a rash decision or if the family really doesn't want to raise a disabled child . I would communicate as best I could to teach the family the positive and negative things that come with raising a child with a disability. I would give examples of families who choose to keep the child and families who abandoned their child. I will never hide any facts or tell the truth so that families receive all the facts and know that almost anything is possible. Also at present, social services would also have more power to help the family with a disabled child and provide them with the appropriate help to cope with the addition. In short, I feel in 2015 as a social worker or human