Are social workers effete? If so why?

It seems to me that assisting a battered woman to leave her battering husband, or an abused child to leave its abusing parents can be a very dangerous trade. Certainly when my late wife (a then social worker) was dealing with one rather savage family from the notoriously dangerous Gravesend Waterdales she received frequent death threats and was more than once followed by car - and she had police advice if threatened on the road to drive directly (and without too much regard for usual road rules) directly to the fortress-like Gravesend police station.

If that's effete to you Gg, you must be well'ard.