I am absolutely dumbfounded over this. The parents were warned that if the children didn’t lose weight, they would lose them forever. Now the State intends to carry through with its threat. I am of the opinion that this is why one needs the second amendment, it gives these monstrous bureaucrats some pause.
Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control.
In the first case of its kind, their mother and father now face what they call the ‘unbearable’ likelihood of never seeing them again.
Their three daughters, aged 11, seven and one, and five-year-old son, will either be ‘fostered without contact’ or adopted.
But despite subjecting them to intense scrutiny, social workers did not impose rules on what food the children should eat, and there was apparently little or no improvement.News of the decision to remove them was broken to the couple, from Dundee, on Tuesday. Critics called it a disgraceful breach of human rights and a chilling example of the power of the State to meddle in family life.
In an emotional interview, the 42-year-old mother said: ‘We might not be the perfect parents, but we love our children with all our hearts. To face a future where we will never see them again is unbearable.
Over my dead fat body.
September 6, 2011 at 1:57 am
According to the Wii machine, two of my children are obese, even though they just look a little hefty to me. Do I really stand a chance of losing them? We are not on public health care, I get them regular check ups, they are both on a swim team, and I cook all their meals at home, no sodas in the house. But I don't need to explain that to you, right? I love all my children, and spend a lot of time building their character AND taking good care of their bodies–as good as I'm able. But nobody's perfect. Nobody's perfect LOOKING and nobody's perfect ACTING. I think these governments are trying to stretch the definition of child abuse to include anything that offends their utopian ideals. Hey! Maybe if I mention this UK threat to my kids and remind them who's president, they'll pass on dessert. Good idea!
September 6, 2011 at 1:16 pm
>Salvage, your vile remarks have refuted your apologia for the state better than I could.
I know, I know, me and my facts, reason and logic explained point by point! So trollish!
Theists, when reality doesn't work just ignore it, always the best plan.
September 6, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Well dang it. I let myself get trolled.
Sometimes it's just better to let these guys speak without responding. They often do a better job of refuting their own side than anyone else can.
September 6, 2011 at 7:11 pm
ohhhh. Now I get it.
salvage is just here to poke at Christians and cherry pick his "facts."
Honey, you wouldn't admit to another's logic and reason if it hit you on the head…which, I do believe…it has.
September 6, 2011 at 7:24 pm
It's weird, Susan, people here keep saying stuff like that but don't actually show me what facts I've gotten wrong (I assume that's what you mean by "Facts"?).
Please enlighten me! Show me where I'm wrong, to summarize simply:
Abusing children bad
Taking abused children away from parents good.
Parents overfeeding children bad and if taken to an extreme as I suspect the case to be here, bad enough to take the children away.
Since we don't know the details of the case and since it appears to be unique I'm thinking the agencies are most likely doing the right thing.
Now what in all that have I gotten wrong?
September 6, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Odd that the UK isn't doing anything about protecting minors from sharia law in that country.
Since when is eating transfatty acids a higher crime than enforced marriage of minors?
Preventing obesity is more important nowadays than preventing honour killings?
– Elodie
September 7, 2011 at 1:25 am
Elodie, as to the UK being rather selective about what constitutes
an abuse the state is willing to prosecute…
It is estimated that about 70,000 women living in the UK have under-
gone female genital mutilation. About 20,000 girls are at risk to be
subjected to FGM. It is so organized in the immigrant communities
now that the families usually schedule the 'procedure' during the
Christmas school break, when a 'cutter' is flown in to attend to
several families' girls during one trip, thus saving money for the
parents. Parliament passed a law banning FGM over 25 years ago.
And how many people have been prosecuted in the UK for abusing
a girl by mutilating her genitals? Zero, or as they'd say there, zed.
In 25 years, nobody has been prosecuted, no girl removed from her
family, no bureaucrat has been outraged by the abuse, no pediatrician
or school nurse has filed a report the police and CPS are willing to
follow up on. Immigrant families can mutilate their daughter's
genitals with impunity, but this family in Dundee is being torn apart
on the order of some bureaucrats because someone thinks they feed
their kids too much?
September 7, 2011 at 6:13 am
The state is looking to intrude on families to a greater and greater degree – the state is a beast whose thirst for power will never be quenched. Bureaucrats are parasites who create nothing and live of the productive class.
@Bill @Susan – feeding the trolls is never a good idea they just keep coming back for more
September 7, 2011 at 10:55 am
Ok, so this is supposed to have happened in the UK. I was afraid it happened in the USA, which would have surprised me a lot. I live in Canada, where this kind of nonsense is not unheard of. I'm seriously thinking about immigrating to the States.
September 10, 2011 at 7:28 pm
You lost your parents, because you're a fat, ugly loser – it's official!
Well, that is SO going to help these kids live happy, healthy lives. More likely to induce severe eating disorders. Lovely!
September 16, 2011 at 8:00 am
I remember watching a news story on something similar happening in the US. For the life of me I can't remember where. But a young toddler was taken and placed in foster care. Turns out she was still overweight and doctors ruled that it was most likely genetics that played a part not activity level or food.
September 17, 2011 at 2:17 am
What are the children going to eat in foster care? Grilled salmon and kale? Don't make me laugh. I note that the social wankers didn't impose any rules on what the kids could eat. They didn't know how to feed children any better than the parents, but they were ready to destroy a family anyway. I passionately wish that all those responsible will die unusual and agonizing deaths.
– Meredith