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Should parents lose custody of overly fatty kids?

brainhulk

brainhulk

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http://news.yahoo.com/parents-lose-custody-super-obese-kids-200342454.html

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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i understand what they are trying to say, but remove custody? wtf, c'mon man
 
Ugh, in the bad parts of Baltimore I see kids who look like little butterballs all the time. It's sad.
 
Remove custody? Not sure, but something should be done. Maybe every week the parents get a lashing for every pound their child is overweight. That might help. Or a cigarette burn on the kneepit of the parents, one for every five pounds the child is overweight.
 
My sister's 13yo daughter is dangerously obese, to the point that the school strongly "recommended" family counseling.

That being said, I don't agree with removing custody, but education for the whole family is very important. My sister was made more aware of the foods that she is keeping in her house that my niece shouldn't be eating. Even though the food wasn't bought for her, just having it in the house increases the possibility that the child will eat it. It's important for the whole family to participate, which meant they all needed to curb their eating habits.

My sister also found out recently that my niece was sneaking and stockpiling food under her bed, and she was able to bring this up at the counseling appt. for advice. Between exercise and a better diet, her daughter has lost about 50 lbs in the last year, and my sister and her husband have also lost weight. They are all BIG people, so they will never have a skinny build, but they are all looking more healthy and eating better, doing more activities, etc... They still have a long way to go, but I'm proud of them for trying, it even inspired me to start weight lifting and cardio again.

I think education/counseling is key, I don't think they would have done it on their own, so I'm glad the school recommended it.
 
I think letting your child get too fat is a form of neglect. And the parents should be treated like anyone else who neglects their child.

My ex-sister-in-laws kids were so fat, that one of the kids developed high blood pressure around the age of 12. What kind of parent lets their kid go so fat, that the child has to be on high blood pressure meds? We are talking about a 12 year old that weighed around 200 pounds.

Another family I know, same thing with the kids developing high blood pressure, but this girl is around 13 years old. The doctor put the girl on blood pressure meds, and the mom would take the kids to burger king for a burger and fries.
 
as someone who has been pretty active and fit my entire life, i will never for the life of me understand how the hell people can get so fat and just not give a shit about it. same goes for when children get fat and the parents just don't give a shit about it.

it is just something i will never understand.
 
I think everyone that doesn't fit the definition of what is normal should be rounded up and reprogrammed. It's important that everyone look the same, think the same and act the same.

Resistance is futile.
 
lol. what a joke.

Talk about fucking up a kid for life, your too fat so we are taking you away from your parents and sticking you in Foster care where you are more likely to be physically and sexually abused.
 
IceBergSLiM said:
lol. what a joke.

Talk about fucking up a kid for life, your too fat so we are taking you away from your parents and sticking you in Foster care where you are more likely to be physically and sexually abused.
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well to be fair, parents letting their kids become this fat is already fucking them up for life.

but that is a totally different fucking up than what moving to foster care involves.
 
and where the hell you do suggest putting them? If you take them from their homes, they'll become a drain on society. If you leave them where they are, they continue becoming a drain on their family.
 
purbeast0 said:
i turn 30 this year.
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After schools dropped their physical education programs, I think that is when a lot of weight issues started. I am willing to bet that running track for 30 - 45 minutes in school PE class was all the exercise some kids got.

When I was in school (1970s - 1980s), PE was a required class all the way until your junior year in high school.

Today, kids get no PE. The kids sit in class all day long, then go home and sit in front of the TV, or computer.


rasczak said:
and where the hell you do suggest putting them?
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Put PE back in school, and make those kids run track for 30 - 45 minutes everyday.
 
purbeast0 said:
well to be fair, parents letting their kids become this fat is already fucking them up for life.

but that is a totally different fucking up than what moving to foster care involves.
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you can always lose weight. you can never erase the scars taking a child away from their parents causes. If we want to breed a generation of hateful psychopaths this seems like a good program.
 
Texashiker said:
After schools dropped their physical education programs, I think that is when a lot of weight issues started. I am willing to bet that running track for 30 - 45 minutes in school PE class was all the exercise some kids got.

When I was in school (1970s - 1980s), PE was a required class all the way until your junior year in high school.

Today, kids get no PE. The kids sit in class all day long, then go home and sit in front of the TV, or computer.




Put PE back in school, and make those kids run track for 30 - 45 minutes everyday.
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Now that I can agree with. When i was in junior high, we ran a mile everyday during PE. and it was competitive as well. By ninth grade I ran my first sub 5 mile.
 
Whats even more stupid is the government pushing dietary habits(high carb) that are making the kids and families obese to begin with.
 
Texashiker said:
After schools dropped their physical education programs, I think that is when a lot of weight issues started. I am willing to bet that running track for 30 - 45 minutes in school PE class was all the exercise some kids got.

When I was in school (1970s - 1980s), PE was a required class all the way until your junior year in high school.

Today, kids get no PE. The kids sit in class all day long, then go home and sit in front of the TV, or computer.
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For most people (including myself) exercise never becomes fun - but you do get used to it. I think that something along the lines of what you're saying here is necessary to force people to get used to the uncomfortableness of exercise.

IceBergSLiM said:
Whats even more stupid is the government pushing dietary habits(high carb) that are making the kids and families obese to begin with.
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This is the real issue - daily exercise is entirely pointless when we're still getting absolutely atrocious diets pushed down on us from all sorts of media.
 
should they lose the children? no. BUT i will say i do think perhaps something needs to be done. perhaps a pernting class and/or nutrition class.

and cutting cable and internet...
 
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