Eight Year Old Obese Child Taken By Social Services
Written by Stuart Stevens | Monday, 16 July 2007 | There are 2 comments
The parents of the girl who hail from West Cumbria are extremely upset...
The issue of child obesity has come to the top of the national consciousness yet again after a girl of only eight years old was forcibly taken from her parents and taken into care because the local social services felt that she was in danger from her excessive weight. The eight year old who is 5ft. tall is already a size sixteen which means that she is six sizes larger then the normal size for her age. Despite only being eight years old she is already suffering from health problems which are connected directly to her excessive weight.
The parents of the girl who hail from West Cumbria are extremely upset and say that she is overweight not due to their lack of care or that they feed her too much but because she has a genetic or medical problem that they cannot control. The parents of the child said that they will do everything they can to get her back to home and that they are ‘devastated’. The parents did however admit that the thing they had given her which could have caused her obesity were sugary fizzy drinks. They said however that she ate normally and that she was an active child.
The issue of whether children should be forcibly taken from their parents if they become too overweight is an extremely sensitive one with the many people saying that it is perfectly right that the local authorities start to act to protect these children and other people who say that it is just plain wrong to take children away from their parents.
Nevertheless it is hoped that the fact that parents realise that if their children become too overweight they could have them taken away from them may spur them into action, and make them go and get help to reduce the weight of their children.
There are 2 comments on this article.
Chantel said:
This is absolutely insane!!! I have never heard of anything so shocking as taking children away frm their parents bcuz they are obese - where will these children go? Into a foster home? Orphanage? Care home of some sort? How many hundreds of stories have we heard abt children being sexually abused in these places, bcuz other adults can’t keep their hands off them!! Why are you attacking and punishing parents when you should be attacking and punishing the people who are pushing and advertising all the produce that are making children fat!! Ban SUGAR and FAT and CHIPS, and SWEETS, and FIZZY COOL DRINKS, and TAKE AWAY FOODS, and BURGERS, and HOTDOGS, etc… etc…. not PARENTS!! All you are causing is a life-long physiological pain and trauma to that child - she/he will forever suffer with a deep rooted fear of abandonment, rejection, and terrible insecurities, for she/he will now know and fear all their lives that their parents cannot protect them!! And by making the parents scared that their children could be taken away anytime, anyday, will create a home that will never feel safe again for that child/children. You may even create a life-long eating disorder in these children for anorexia or bulimia, bcuz they will be frightened of being taken away frm their parents and home again. How absolutely ridiculous!! Who on earth came up with this air-brained idea?? – could it be someone who has never had a weight problem!!?? How would you feel if this had been done to you as a child??
Robert said:
I agree TOTALLY with Chantal, it is idiotic and insensitive. The people who came up with this idiotic idea cannot have a brain cell in their heads or any heart whatsoever!!! It infuriates me, I was obese as a child and it certainly was not my parents fault nor mine for that matter, I was later on in life diagnosed with an abnormally low metabolic rate. Only idiots would come up with this remedy... what do you think you are doing to these children. Punish the product owners and ban the advertisments!
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