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.