Unfortunately, this sort of thing is all too common.
Posted on 07/13/2011 12:23:07 AM PDT by E Rocc
CHICAGO - Should parents of extremely obese children lose custody for not controlling their kids' weight? A provocative commentary in one of the nation's most distinguished medical journals argues yes, and its authors are joining a quiet chorus of advocates who say the government should be allowed to intervene in extreme cases.
It has happened a few times in the U.S., and the opinion piece in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association says putting children temporarily in foster care is in some cases more ethical than obesity surgery.
Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston, said the point isn't to blame parents, but rather to act in children's best interest and get them help that for whatever reason their parents can't provide.
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There are many genetic conditions which cause obesity, I guess these kids will be taken away too. Kids in a house with a smoker, you better believe they will be taken away next.
No one would take my kid away... I would die to protect my child from these idiots. Tea Party march on DC is way overdue.
Smoker, drinker, Tea Party “wacko” and how many other excuses for usurping parental rights.
There is no freedom if we are not allowed to make the “wrong” choices for ourselves. The price of freedom is the consequences for making poor choices for ourselves.
Its a bit like free will.
Without it, one is just a robot doing what God planned for it to do and nothing more.
With free will there is sin.
It is as simple as that.
The sooner people figure that out the better.
So now they’re using threats.
There is nothing ethical about the State separating a child from his family (in the absence of real abuse) because the child does not conform to a government notion as to what qualities it considers normal.
My husband lived on fast food and junk before I met him, he weighed 150 pounds. People made fun of him for being so skinny at over 6 feet tall.
I think if you weigh 500 pounds at 14, you have a medical issue. Taking you away from your parents is not going to solve that, and may make it worse. When I was 14, I would have been petrified to have been sent to foster parents, and probably tried to get back home. (No, I’m not saying I weighed 500, just afraid of being taken away from my family if I was overweight!)
"Take kids away from those nasty gun owners, too."
The state can raise and train these kids to become huge SEIU thugs.
It's the will of the people that there children are condemned to a lifetime of disease and bad health?
What sort of utopian commune were you raised in?
You left off the most sought one......GUN OWNER.
JAMA is a load of leftist crap. I quit the AMA a decade ago.
Used to be a parent lost custody if unable to support a child properly. Then we got
“compassionate” and left children with drug addled welfare queens. But NOW obesity may be cause to remove a child! Yeah yeah yeah, WHERE would a society be without standards?
Unfortunately, this sort of thing is all too common.
Is that picture genuine? That kid looks like he is in a fat-suit. If it is real ...wow! Sad.
Hitler has been reborn in the JAMA.
AMA Fractured, Leftists on Top, Private Doctors Say
Jun 20, 2011
At the annual American Medical Association’s House of Delegates meeting in Chicago, the delegates reaffirmed the AMA’s support for the linchpin of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) by a vote of 326-165.
The AMA calls it “individual responsibility.” But it means the individual insurance mandate. An amendment to allow the states to choose whether to impose a mandate was soundly defeated.
Numerous physicians spoke passionately and eloquently against the mandate, referring to constitutionality challenges, freedom issues, and the opposition of physicians and numerous medical organizations. The AMA admits to having lost 12,000 members since 2009, many because of the AMA’s endorsement of PPACA.
“The AMA has turned 180 degrees since the 1950s, when it held that ‘the voluntary way is the American way,’” stated Jane Orient, M.D., executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS). “Now it has adopted the ‘progressive’ left-wing stance of calling for compulsory purchase of government-prescribed insurance.”
Individuals will no longer be able to choose for themselves how to pay their medical bills. Many might choose the most affordable way: self-payment of most bills, with low-cost, high-deductible insurance for the rare catastrophe.
“But that choice would deprive the government’s favored plans of some fat premiums,” Dr. Orient noted.
As AAPS has pointed out in pending litigation, PPACA itself created the problem that the individual mandate is supposed to solve. By forcing insurers to accept all comers at a fixed rate, PPACA shields individuals from having to take responsibility for the consequences of not buying insurance until they expect to make claims on it.
Supporters of the mandate, with its penalties, argued that it is necessary for assuring coverage, which apparently trumps liberty.
New AMA president is a big 0bama guy
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