Eat Zis Tvinkie, or it iz the camp for you! MACHT SHNELL!!

Holy ho-ho's batman! I wonder what goverment super-villian at child protective services signed off on this one.

That is absolutely rediculious. I have a 4 year old daughter whom i take care of myself. She is also a terribly pickey eater. So much that sometimes she has to go to bed a little hungry because i wont feed her chicken nuggets everyday. Kids will be kids there is no doubting that. And they deffinatelyt wont starve to death. They will eat if they are hungry.

I have noticed a trend tha whne one of these so called "experts" says something, it is taken as total gospel. They destroy lifes of innocent people while letting the bad ones slip through. This is rediculious and i believe that some of these people should find different jobs. Perhaps McDonalds so they can see what junk food actually does to people.

Guess it must be nice to know everything about someone and not actually have to know them as people first.

MessOnTheFED!

I'll admit if taken at face value it's more than extreme but this in the comments section sums up my thoughts nicely after reading it, remember this is the Daily Mail we are talking about.

Hmmm they don't look that healthy, in fact they both look overweight. Possibly more to this story than this one-sided version of events clearly designed to demomise social services? Possibly?

This does not look like the face of healthy eating:

hang on just one second, the doctor did his duty reporting that the child was losing weight and the parents weren't following medical advice. the social services did their job and took the child in to access his needs.

it's a pain that, once in a while, good parents have to endure a bit of heart break when they didn't deserve it, but overall, i'm glad there are people out there keeping an eye out for children in danger from their parents.

if there was a report in the papers about a child that starved to death despite doctors having reported his condition to social services, you'ld all be screaming for blood.

Originally posted by Goathief
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Hmmm they don't look that healthy, in fact they both look overweight. Possibly more to this story than this one-sided version of events clearly designed to demomise social services? Possibly?

This does not look like the face of healthy eating:

You're right, they look like they were brought up on the type of diet that Child Welfare was trying to force on their little boy. Perhaps they want their son to have a better upbringing than they had.

(When brought up with little exercise, and a high-calorie low-nutrient diet, it's bloody hard to lose weight later.)

Do you seriously suggest that the parents' weight problem means they should feed their son lollies and fast food when ordered?


I don't know the English system, but in Australian child welfare, (HACS) you earn promotion by breaking up lots of families.

If Obama care goes through, this is one of the things that you have to look forward to. Your doctor won't be an advocate for you, he will be an advocate for the government.

Originally posted by Goathief
I'll admit if taken at face value it's more than extreme but this in the comments section sums up my thoughts nicely after reading it, remember this is the Daily Mail we are talking about.

Hmmm they don't look that healthy, in fact they both look overweight. Possibly more to this story than this one-sided version of events clearly designed to demomise social services? Possibly?

This does not look like the face of healthy eating:

What incredibly stupid, egotistical and judgmental comments. So you think the aneorix shallow nukis on telvision are healthy. ONLY A SADIST WOULD WANT TO SLEEP WITH A FRAGILE STARVING WOMAN.

This couple looks like real people do, especially post children. AND AFTER HAVING 4 KIDS SHE WILL NEVER HAVE THE YOUNG LOOK AGAIN.

Now do the real thing that counts: LOOK IN THEIR EYES. Nice couple, integrity and goodness.

Yours, I don't have to look in. Grow the hell up!!!!!!!!!!!

And get over this nazi fanaticism with judging others.


[edit on 2-12-2009 by Unity_99]

When do people believe that the government should step in, if at all?
I mean, I am for less government in our lives, but I also feel for the innocent children whose parents treat them worse than dogs.

I know of a family (actually the father is a very very old boyfriend of mine), the parents are extremely overweight. They have 2 kids, who are 5 and under 1. Both are extremely fat. The 5 year old wears clothing sized for a 10 year old. She is constantly getting in trouble at school because of her being teased. She is teased for being so fat, and she ends up hitting the kids who do the teasing. They are allowed to eat anything they want and as much as they want. They sit around and are not participating in any physical activities.

Its all disgusting to me. Every time I see pictures of those kids stuffing their face, I want to cry and scream at those parents. It is abuse, IMO.
Not only are their self esteems being ruined, but their health too!

So, is there a line that once crossed, the government must step in?

Abuse does not just come in the form of hitting and causing blood and bruises or sexual abuse. Not properly caring for the health and well being of a child, is abuse IMO

What is the answer? Allow the abuse or step in?

[edit on December 2nd 2009 by greeneyedleo]

They should step in when a child is constantly receiving physical wounds, and/or there is indication, usually from the child themselves, that they have been abused sexually, AND, after an investigation the primary caregiver is responsible, or IF one of the parents is abusing the other, or IF, there is a sign of heavy hard drug use.

And for no other reason.

I have 5 boys, 4 are very thin when young and 3 still are, naturally, like my father, wirey and thin, and always underweight. They eat varying amounts ranging from eveything in site to small picky amounts to be that thin. One is plump. All have been given food choices that involve a variety of healthy and semi healthy (depending on incomes), and some treats too, kind of balanced diets. Not one of them had to go without for refusing to eat something but could in the end chose a bowl of cereal or something else depending on what we had.

Your child won't starve, as long as you offer them choices, they will chose to eat when they need, AND, if they're not being fed junk food all the time, then their own bodies will select what they need the most nutritionally. Though going through stages where they look like they arent eating much is common around 2. VEry very very common. Surprised they found a nazi doctor. All the doctors I've had here in Canada have been up to the latest info and they themselves told me not to worry and what was normal.

This had nothing to do with the child's wieght but was NWO, the leaders trying to be agents of chaos and tell us they have control.




[edit on 2-12-2009 by Unity_99]

Sad but ultimately typical really, I'm surprised people even bat an eye at such occurrences anymore. I used to be shocked by such stories but I've long since learned that its fairly typical in some parts of the world for the government to call all the shots for people and the people just lay there and take it. Just one more reason to drop out of society all together really...