To: marshmallow
There was a TV news show done on this very same thing about 4 or 5 years ago. This child evidently has the same medical condition (can't remember its name) that these other children had. Most of these parents had also been hounded to death and/or had their children snatched by overzealous, non-medical personnel from CPS even though many of these parents had other children who WERE within the 'prescribed' weight limits! There were several doctors and pediatricians on this show who stated that the ONLY reason these children lost any weight in foster 'care' was because they had been ordered to ONLY allow these children to have xx amount of certain kinds of food per day while in their care. Some of the foster parents were also interviewed on this show and stated that they had listened to these children cry almost constantly from hunger!! (several of these "over weight" children were 2 and 3 years old) and they were pretty certain that the children's biologic parents would have been unable to stand to listen to their own children "cry hungry". The physicians went on to state that the medical condition IS treatable but, of course, it would first have to be diagnosed by someone who was familar with it. Point being - none of us should be willing to throw stones at other parents until we know ALL the circumstance and not just jump to conclusions that the parents are somehow 'pigs' or 'lower life forms'.
4 posted on 7/29/02 9:27 AM Pacific by KentuckyWoman [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]
I beg your pardon missy....gotcha again...don't ever underestimate the power of a TEXAS woman.