You would have to show that you're improving the child's situation. You start with a very, very large negative on that account--taking the child away from her parents. So whatever good there is to come of that has to be even greater than that immense harm.
I suspect that there are only a few cases, percentagewise, that could ever warrant such a thing.
This is another little interesting tidbit I heard on the radio today. Some more liberal states are considering taking overweight children away from their parents, charging the parents with child abuse, and putting the children in foster care. What's your opinion?
This is another little interesting tidbit I heard on the radio today. Some more liberal states are considering taking overweight children away from their parents, charging the parents with child abuse, and putting the children in foster care. What's your opinion?
This is another little interesting tidbit I heard on the radio today. Some more liberal states are considering taking overweight children away from their parents, charging the parents with child abuse, and putting the children in foster care. What's your opinion?
If a parent were starving a kid to the point of anorexia I think we would all be for the child being removed from the home. If a parent is feeding a kid to point of obesity I see no real difference.
Define obesity. By the standards some agencies use, Arnold Swartzenegger was "obese" when he was a competition bodybuilder.
I don't know if anyone else has advanced this idea but it does occur to me that with the advancement of the health care bill the government will use that as leverage to dictate to us the things we can and can't do. After all, if there the one's paying our health care bills then shouldn't they be able to tell us:
1. what to eat,
2. what not to eat (if fast-food becomes politically-incorrect they would have the power to wipe-out a whole industry),
3. that we get enough exercise,
4. don't participate in dangerous activities (motorcycles, skateboards, jet ski, parasailing, target shooting, etc.)
Do / don't do these things and there will be penalties.
Going by the logic that some people use when saying that people that use foodstamps shouldn't be allowed to buy <insert bad food item here> then yes, you are correct.
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