Lifestyle: Britain Threatens To Take Fattest Children Away From Parents

For those of you who can’t/won’t click the link, this takes place in Scotland. Social Services has told the parents that if the three heaviest of their six children don’t lose weight, they could lose all six of them. 1

Although obesity has not yet been criminalised in the USA, it is possible to have your three-year old child taken from you for the offence of ‘allowing’ her to become fat. That is the stark lesson of the Anamarie Regino saga, which continues to play out in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The story of what was done to a child and her parents by an assortment of doctors, social workers, and government bureaucrats is a chilling tale of what can happen when people of modest means and social status find themselves, through no fault of their own, facing the full brunt of the prejudice that fuels the war on fat. 2

The association said that until now there had been only a few cases when social services had intervened in obesity cases. But it gave warning that local councils may have to take action much more often and, if necessary, put obese children on “at risk” registers or take them into care. It called for new guidelines to be drawn up to help authorities deal with the issue. 3

Dangerously overweight children will have to be taken from their parents and put into care because of Britain’s worsening “obesity epidemic”, council leaders have warned. One million children will be clinically obese within four years on current trends, storing up future problems from heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure and diabetes. 4

How is that ludicrous at all? If parents were subjecting their children to conditions that caused any other life-threatening and quality of life destroying health condition, would you still say it was “insane” to suggest that they aren’t properly caring for them? 5