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Is this 'a tragedy'?.

margaret*e — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:02:26 GMT

Or overhyped news story.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/08/10-stone-child-taken-into-care_n_4407548.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

That's more than my 25yr old daughter weighs, but does it justify taking the child into care if she was otherwise cared for?.

Re: Is this 'a tragedy'?.

lhasa.two — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:44:15 GMT

I don't think she was "otherwise cared for" if she was allowed to reach that weight at that age.

That's abuse, not care.

Re: Is this 'a tragedy'?.

**forum-decorum** — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 23:50:40 GMT

I do believe it is a tragedy that a five year old has reached that weight, but I don't know the facts so cannot comment on whether it right or wrong that the child was taken into care.

I certainly won't start pulling the parents apart.

I have also had first hand experience of social services devastating a family just because they believe they are right, the trouble is, because in the last few years a few mistakes have been made the law gives them far too much power to do as they please. with little regard for the family as a whole.

Re: Is this 'a tragedy'?.

welsh.goddess — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:26:01 GMT

the tragedy is that she reached that weight

Re: Is this 'a tragedy'?.

margaret*e — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:58:58 GMT

An epidemic of child obesity according to this, and I have to admit I've never seen so many fat children.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/obesity-epidemic-39-mass-child-neglect-39-015619991.html#QQnVXAC

Re: Is this 'a tragedy'?.

ilove2patch — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:36:39 GMT

I was with my daughter collecting my eight year old granddaughter from school & have to say I didn't see one child I would have called severely overweight. I know it happens but it's probably rarer than we are led to believe.

Welsh Goddess I love your quote.