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I think nutrition is vitally important to physical and mental health. In the same way, as a therapist specializing in adoption, I never take separating a child from his or her family lightly. While there are times it is necessary for the health and safety of a child, and times it is outside of anyone’s control, it will have a lasting impact on the child. Officials in Scotland have decided it is fit and proper to take obese children away from their parents. In particular, parents of four obese children had received warnings from officials regarding the weight of their children. As those warnings were not heeded, those officials proceeded to remove the children from their parent’s home.
They work multiple jobs and commute for hours causing the time for cooking healthy meals to be lacking. Sending kids out to play and exercise can be dangerous depending on your neighborhood, not to mention that CPS has examined parents for neglect just because they let their kids play or walk alone! And maybe fat and sugar are one of the few small luxuries many can enjoy due to low incomes – if you have lived with hunger, you KNOW this.
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And then there’s the fact that vast numbers of those who are overweight and obese don’t know it, so they won’t even think the “message” applies to them. Childhood obesity is a serious issue that needs to be addressed, but taking a child from his/her parents because he’s obese is completely wrong. When I heard about this, the first thought I had was of my older half sister. She has a disorder called Lipedema that it appears was inherited from her father’s side of the family . Her whole life she has been morbidly obese and has had to endure ridicule from people including doctors .
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The kids they’re most concerned with are going to be in lower income, more densely populated areas. They child care system is already taxed, and adding to it isn’t going to help. If this country really wanted to get people healthy, regulations on food would be severely tightened. "They are trying to make it seem like I am unfit, like I don't love my child," she told The Plain Dealernewspaper.
We all know that eating unhealthy and not being active will put weight on you. Hopefully give the child a fighting chance at losing weight. For him to be an expert on obesity and have, seemingly, no desire to acknowledge food addiction… is mind-boggling. To not know of these things, yet suggest something so drastic as removing children from their homes… well, it leaves me sad about the state of our country’s knowledge of food and their bodies.
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A child can be removed from a home if medication is not administered properly or treatment plans are not followed. As childhood obesity has become a major problem in the United States, it is not surprising that a medical treatment plan for weight loss would eventually become an issue of concern. Despite what many fear, social services does not want to remove children and the primary goal is nearly always reunification. I would be surprised if a child was removed from a home due to weight issues unless a parent was given multiple warnings. However, government does head down a difficult road when its representatives pull an otherwise safe child from his family. After all, in Ohio alone the state health department estimates that more than 12 percent of the children in third grade are severely obese.
When the parents failed to heed the order, the child was placed in the care of the state. What's even worse is the epidemic of blubber among children. Obesity rates have skyrocketed among the nation's kids in the past two decades. Nearly 32 percent of U.S. children ages 2 to 19 are overweight or obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Detail of the case emerged in a ruling by Ellis published online on Wednesday. She had considered evidence at a private family court hearing in Sussex last year. The family could not be identified in media reports of the case.
Experts estimate that as many as 2 percent of children are allergic to eggs. Symptoms of an egg allergy reaction can range from mild, such as hives, to severe, such as anaphylaxis. Allergic reactions can be unpredictable, and even very small amounts of egg can cause one. The Human Rights Act 1998 makes the rights in the European Convention on Human Rights part of domestic law. The Equality Act 2010 makes it illegal to discriminate against children. The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects the rights of all children.
Mind you, I’m the mother of a little girl who “exercises” around the house and, afterwords, asks you to “touch her muscles! ” That being said, I’m also a mother who was pretty overweight as a child. Looking back on what my life was like, the only difference between my mother and I was the fact that she wasn’t overweight. The parents also have three older children, two sons aged 16 and 13 and a 15-year old daughter. The state is permitting those children to stay with their parents as they are reportedly too old to be adopted.
She’s definitely big for her age, and heavy, but she’s healthy, active, and will eat any fruit or vegetable in front of her, as long as it’s isn’t a pea or highly acidic. Just looking at her, though, most people would assume she’s an unhealthy fat kid. Until people recognize the connection between what they put in their mouths, and how much daily exercise they get translates into how healthy their bodies will be, nothing will change. One woman said she had 4 children, and ran out of insulin 2 weeks ago, but was too busy to stop in and get another prescription from the doctor until she noticed her feet hurting and swelling up.
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