Most child protective workers are dedicated professionals, but what happens when one of them lets a personal grudge shape a case? In “Spiteful Decision Making in Child Protective Services,” published October 6, 2026 in the New Jersey Law Journal, Daniel Pollack, MSW, JD, a professor at Yeshiva University’s School of Social Work, and Karen K. Greenberg, a partner at Konowitz & Greenberg in Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts, look at a quieter kind of misconduct: resentment hidden behind phrases like “lack of cooperation” or “insufficient insight.” They describe how supervisors can tell a difficult parent from a dangerous one, what safeguards make personal animus harder to hide, and the legal exposure workers face when private grudges take on the force of government action.
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