Should Obese Children be Removed from Parents?

While I would consider having a morbidly obese child and making no efforts to fix the problem a form of child abuse, there is really no practical way of doing anything about it. Every system that involves taking a child out of their home and placing them in foster care is overwhelmed. They are also going through the process of having their budgets cut here in the state of Texas. This means that they must focus their attention on the most severe cases.

This would also encourage arm chair parenting when in some cases there is a legit medical condition. This is an issue best left in the hands of professionals, in this case doctors. What are you supposed to do? Notice the neighbor kid is getting fat and call cps?
 
Unfortunately so much of what is called "food" in the US is just various prepackaged forms of flavored and preserved sugar and chemicals. We are all much too busy it seems to buy and prepare real food. Even what we might think to be real food is full of pesticides and growth hormones. The net result is health nightmare. Are parents to blame? Sure, but our own government tries to educate us with food pyramids or food plates that are mostly wrong. So, now who do you blame.
 
If that is a form of child abuse, then how about allowing your kid to develop anorexia? Or allowing them to play video games constantly and not finish their homework? Or giving them unrestricted internet access? Or dressing your kid up and taking them to pre-teen beauty pageants? Or buying your pre-teen clothes that are designed to be sexually provocative (or at least they would be if the person wearing them wasn't only 8 years old)?

I'd argue that every one of those things is every bit as harmful or irresponsible to a kid as overeating. So once we do that, then maybe we should start confiscating kids whose parents raise them with objectionable ideas - you know, those "fringe nuts" that believe things that the normals consider supersitious or closed-minded.

Honestly, it's a statement on our condition as a country and the mindset of some who live here that this is even being discussed at any level.
 
Childhood obesity has tripled in less than 30 years.

Who will take care of these obese kids as they become more obese adults?

Given our budgetary dilemmas, where will the money come from?
 
No. Here in Texas we don't have especially great resources to intervene when children a beaten, starved, burned with cigarettes and raped. Let's not up our caseworkers' loads from barely manageable to impossible.
 
Childhood obesity has tripled in less than 30 years.

Who will take care of these obese kids as they become more obese adults?

Given our budgetary dilemmas, where will the money come from?
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If we didnt live in a nanny state, we wouldnt have to worry about it. They could take care of themselves. This problem is a direct reflection on our education system, poor parenting and the introduction of too much entertainment media. It is the perfect storm which has created lazy, stupid and unmotivated kids. I used to eat a ton as a kid, probably as much as these kids do but they were home cooked meals and i was active at least 5 hours a day. we didnt have computers or video games...well, intellivision...but we didnt waste all day playing it. i dont think the non-fat food industry or fast food industry has anything to do with it. i used to eat mcdonals's and dairy queen as a kid, everyone did, but we weren't fat....why?....we were active. as a kid, being a sloth not only prevents you from burning the calories you eat but it also slows your metabolism to a crawl.
 
Of course he is not serious. He just means:
1. Look at all these obese kids who are likely to be massively expensive burdens on all of us;
2. Look at all these parents who don't care because they have nothing to lose, since all of us are standing by to pay the tab for all the expenses for their kids' social, emotional, financial, medical (back, knee, intestinal, blood sugar, blood pressure, hormonal, etc.) problems.
3. Even though it's absurd, we are frustrated enough to ponder the only power we have, which is to take the kids away from them.

I do think sugar--especially high fructose corn syrup--is 60% of the problem.
 
No. Morbidly obese children should not be removed from their parents. What business is it of the government's how parents raise their children?

On the other hand, our society should also not be paying for any medical care for these lard-*** families. In a free society if you want to eat your way into poor health, then so be it. If you want your children to eat their way into poor health, also, so be it. Just don't expect your neighbors to be forced, at the point of the government's gun, to pay for the problems created by your dietary choices.
 
And just what diseases can be absolutely, irrefutably traced to obesity Dr. Narajada?
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How is this related to fat kids?
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Fat kids become fat adults who in turn have more health problems than healthy people. things like type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure which leads to heart disease, and various joint problems because the body simply isnt designed to carry that much weight. Hiugh cholesterol can also lead to heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, and artery disease....
 
This topic is surprisingly refreshing. Although still refusing to agree on specifics, it looks like this crosses party lines. No one wants to see these kids stripped from their families at the hands of the government.
 
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