Should parents of anorexic children lose custody?
Should parents of depressed children lose custody?
Should parents of socially inept children lose custody?
200 pounds? What were they feeding him? Triple Baconators?
bur putting an 8 year old on sex change drugs is not a problem?
No photos of the big fat kid??? I am disappointed in this news story
Should parents of obese lose custody?
...........only if they are Browns fans. /s
Yes! The moment the kid is 3-4 oz overweight. (and parents should be forced to take a child to a government weigh station every week) If there is even the slightest scent of Twinkie on the childs breath, the parents will be jailed! ~ sarc (wouldn’t surprise me)
I once knew a 10 year old boy that weighed 205 pounds. His mother was also severely obese which makes me wonder what the mother weighs in this story. If she is close to a normal weight, this may be something besides overeating. Either way, the government has no business taking this kid.
I hereby call for the firing of all obese social workers.
My gues is that the parents are very overweight as well. Nontheless, it ain’t the stinking govt’s business.
Boiling the frog, IMHO. First they come for the overweight kids... If this is allowed to stand, what is next? Parents who home school? (they deprive their children of socialization). Parents who take their kids to a conservative church? (the children are being brainwashed that abortion is murder and homosexuality is wrong). The list is endless if you think about it.
Should out-of-control governments lose legitimacy?
Generally speaking no, but we really need to know more about the case.
What is the cause of the weight gain?
A 200 pound 8 year old is unusual. It could indicate a medical condition beyond the parents control. Or it could indicate neglect.
I have an 8 year old son. I would never want him taken from me, ever. But I can’t for the life of me figure out how any 8 year old could get to 200 pounds. That has to pose a severe health risk.
Without the medical file on this boy, it is difficult to know if this rises to the level of danger to the child.
I’ll bet both mom and dad are severely obese. In the article, Mom says she’s doing everything to help him control his weight. I’m going to call B.S. on this one. My bet is these kids haven’t eaten a fruit or veggie in their life. Lots of Mickey D’s. I don’t know what the answer to this is because it’s a fairly new pheonomina. Truly 50 years ago you didn’t have 450 pound parents with 200 pound 10 year olds. The only thing heriditary is their diet.
College scouts are probably already looking his way.
Agreed. Absolutely no.
Do a little thought experiment. If a child is very short, do the social workers blame the parents? Probably not, but when it comes to weight they assume that parents control the outcome. In a case this extreme, I sincerely doubt it.
Well that writes off the whole state of West Virginia..../sarc
(Proud Mountaineer here!)
I don’t condone parents encouraging unhealthy lifestyles or refusing to intervene when a child is obviously engaging in disordered eating, but the kid is going to be worse off growing up knowing he was ripped away from his family and caused them and himself great pain because of his size.
I don’t want to imagine the affects of this traumatic experience on the boy’s future body image and relationship with food.
Maybe the mom is ineffectual, but an 8-year-old is not in her presence 24/7/365. What is he eating elsewhere? What is he eating when she is not home? Are other people sneaking him food? (He could, for example, have a Grandma who thinks he's being deprived if mom is cutting him back and who sneaks him food).
Have they done enough medical testing to be certain that there are no medical causes for his weight (a remote possibility but still a possibility).
While it's unhealthy for a child to be 200lb at 8 years old, it's also unhealthy for every adult in his life to be totally focused on his weight, to the point that he is removed from his home and his mother and put in foster care.
No. What’s the cutoff? What if he’d weighed only 189? What if he had weighed 220 but now was losing? Who decides?
Would the Constitutional Convention have voted this in?
What is WRONG with the socialists?