Obese Child Taken From Mother Again
Yes, an obese child should be taken from the mother, or family, and be treated in a specialized facility or with a foster family that understands how to deal with this issue.
I STRONGLY disliked the issue when it happened a while back and the child was found to have genetic reasons for her obesity. Trust me, genes or not, the child could lose weight. The question is what the family was willing to do.
Look, once again, most obese children are in a home with one or more obese parents. It is VERY rare that you find two parents of appropriate weight with an extremely obese child.
It just very, very rarely happens.
If you have one obese parent, your risk as a child is 50% that you will be obese. Two obese parents and that risk jumps to 80%.
Let’s take the parents and put them in foster care or in a facility to see if they CAN lose weight (which they will) and then educate them to help their child.
The problem is, a large majority of these very obese people are addicts. I’m not the one calling them that. The medical community now calls them that and like any addiction, it requires a plan and then they need to “work the plan.”
Jim
Dr. Oz show featured a 200-lb eleven-year-old this week who started hoarding food at the age of two, so there is more going on there than just the parent’s eating habits. She was being sent to a program for eating disorders. However, the type of food she was hoarding was all junk (hot dogs, chips, pasta meals, candy, etc.), which obviously is what the parents were buying for their family and eating themselves. And when they showed video of the mom and daughter walking side by side, they looked virtually identical except for height. At least the show is getting them help for the parents and other kids, as a family, rather than just the one girl.
Comment by Sara — December 2, 2011 at 6:55 pm