Comments on: Childhood Obesity Deemed Child Abuse in Controversial Court Case

By: Rete

Rete — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:58:06 +0000

I just recently read an article talking about another obese child that was taken from her mother also and it mentions this story. His mother claimed that she bought him fast food couse’ it was all she could afford and that she could not afford to pay for his special diet

By: BonnieLuvs

BonnieLuvs — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 20:29:05 +0000

What a child eats at school the parents dont know or when their out at their friends house. I think that taking kids away from their parents because the kid is overwieght is in fact idiotic. Also When a child is a teenager they should be able to decide what they put in their mouth not only that but if the kid has an eating disorder then that should be taken accounted for

By: sean

sean — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 03:00:46 +0000

You are abviously obese as well…quit being lazy and feed your children some decent nutricious food..”taking kids from their loving parents” loving parents don’t let their 14 year old child become 555 pounds..shoot yourself you are beyond stupid

By: sloeguy

sloeguy — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:31:23 +0000

If parents, for whatever reason, neglect the well-being of their children, alarms should go off. Whether or not the state should get involved depends on the case. If parents fail to make progress with the initial social service contact period, then removal might very well be the only recourse the state has to protect the child.

By: sybelj

sybelj — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 05:17:57 +0000

I don’t think they should take children away from the parent in this case; I don’t consider our foster care system to be that ideal anyway, but I digress. In this case (or with anorexic or bulimic children) this would be an opportunity to have a social worker help both parent and children to start eating healthy, closely monitoring and tracking progress. Finding out the why behind the over-eating. Why must the solution the state came up with be so drastic and on top of that…there are no lessons to be taught or life long skills to adopt for either Ms. Gray or her son. Who is the state helping exactly?

By: gangstalking

gangstalking — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:07:40 +0000

I think it’s wrong to take kids from their loving parents because the kids are overweight. Why don’t we start taking anorexic kids and bulimic kids? Right because we have proper compassion when kids are too skinny, we see it as a disease and a societal problem and we don’t blame the parents, but if a kid is overweight it’s the parents fault. Double standard, and it’s wrong.