Stevenson, brought up in a Presbyterian home, found that biblical allusions were a useful way of delineating good and evil. In the first chapter, for example, the narrator Utterson remarks quaintly that he inclines to Cain's heresy--he lets his brother go to the Devil (e.
School-based social workers work cooperatively with school district and community-based agencies to help students and their families deal with hardships, including poverty.
Increasingly, they also provide post-adoption counseling to help older adoptees deal with issues of self-identity, loss and self esteem as well as medical problems that may have a genetic component. Social workers provide a wide gamut of services in the foster-care system as well. These services are critical as the number of children in foster care continues to rise. In this arena, social workers assess at risk families to determine if a child needs placement.