XPost: soc.support.fat-acceptance, alt.health   
   From: jacoby@nowhere.com   
      
   In article <997sb5FmkjU1@mid.individual.net>   
   aMAZon  wrote:   
   >   
   > On 7/26/2011 12:50 AM, W. H. Ales Medical Transport, Inc. wrote:   
   > > A controversial new opinion piece in the Journal of the American Medical   
   > > Association suggests taking severly obese children out of their homes and   
   > > placing them in foster care.   
   > >   
   > > Dr. David Ludwig, who co-authored the article, claims he's not blaming   
   > > parents but protecting children.   
   > >   
   > > State intervention will "support not just the child but the whole family,   
   > > with the goal of reuniting child and family as soon as possible," he said.   
   > >   
   > > Ludwig proposes foster care in drastic cases, where surgery might have   
   > > been the alternative.   
   > >   
   > > But Art Caplan, a University of Pennsylvania bioethicist, believes there's   
   > > no getting around the parental blame game.   
   > >   
   > > Childhood obesity affects nearly two million kids in the United States and   
   > > is quickly becoming a problem in Canada as well.   
   > >   
   > > Short of better parental education and medical intervention, however,   
   > > doctors and health care workers struggle with how to tackle the issue.   
   > >   
   > > Vote YES! at link.   
   > >   
   > > http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2011/07/should-severly-obese-   
   > > children-be-taken-away-from-their-parents.html   
   >   
   >   
   > Based on my experiences in boarding school, it won't necessarily be   
   > successful.  And the trauma of losing your family is bad enough to scar   
   > you for life.   
      
   "Scar" or "alter in a positive way?"  Those who know only abuse   
   tend to accept it as the norm.  Raising obese children is child   
   abuse.   
      
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