Fernando Botero - The Rich Children
An eight year old Cleveland boy was recently taken from his family and placed in foster care after case workers said that his mother wasn’t doing enough to control his weight.
The child in question is over 200 lbs – the average 8 yr old boy is 56 lbs.
Lawyers for the mother argue that the county “overreached” in taking her son, saying the kid’s health is not in imminent danger.
“They are trying to make it seem like I am unfit, like I don’t love my child,” the boy’s mother. “Of course I love him. Of course I want him to lose weight. It’s a lifestyle change, and they are trying to make it seem like I am not embracing that. It is very hard, but I am trying.”
What do you think?
And if you do agree that childhood obesity is child abuse, what do you think that “society” should do about it?
Do we take all those severely obese children away from their parents?
What about your neighborhood?
Would you be okay with your local children’s aid society taking away 12% of the kids in your neighborhood?
And why stop at obesity?
Without crappy parents, we wouldn’t have so many junkies, murderers, rapists, perverts, etc…
Even the best parents screw up their kids in some way.
And as much as it pisses me off to see parents enabling their kid’s obesity, I just don’t see how putting all our severely obese kids into foster homes makes any sense on a large scale.
But that’s just my opinion.
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When you let your child eat whatever stupid food he likes and you don`t give him chance to learn about how to protect himself from obesity, it`s 100% child abuse! Diabetes, vascular and heart problems, social discrimination, depression are just some of the things he will be exposed to.
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