Is this 'a tragedy'?.

[margaret*e]

Or overhyped news story.

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

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

[lhasa.two]

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.

[**forum-decorum**]

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.

[welsh.goddess]

the tragedy is that she reached that weight

[margaret*e]

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

[ilove2patch]

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.