Orrrrr, Here's an idea, reform the food supply. Stop feeding children a massive quantity of chemical cocktails with unknown side effects. Make broccoli and green beans cheaper the McDonald's and Twinkies. It's well known fact that obesity is more common in lower income families. Lower income families generally put in more work hours; No stay-at-home mom making healthy meals or planting organic gardens. It's fast food, processed chemical crap, or "microwave cuisine" for a lot of those kids. It's cheaper and faster to feed your family garbage then it is to feed them healthy. Some of the families in question honestly don't have the time, or money to make a healthy meal. Soooo, How about we stop coming up with excuses to take children away from poor people and reform their access to real, healthy, chemical free food? Still MORE economic persecution? Yet we consider ourselves a civilized nation...
I agree in part. Most of what we find in the supermarket (are there any "grocery stores" anymore?) bears little resemblance to real food. We have swallowed the kool-aid that says somehow processed cereals, chicken mcnuggets, etc. is actually good for us. People who do not have the means are not able to feed their families appropriately, and those that do have the means have been fed a diet of FDA propaganda for so long that they are too ignorant to feed their families properly. I once told someone to try eliminating corn from his diet and he said, "but I hardly eat any corn." In addition to corn starch, cornmeal, corn syrup - try modified food starch, dextrose, citric acid... etc.... in other words, we are not told what we are eating nor do we even consider the possibility that our benevolent FDA would allow anyone to put harmful stuff on the shelves. How like the government to create a problem and then blame the victim.
So parents that LET their children overeat and become *morbidly* obese should get a pass because you think it's LESS abusive than letting them be underfed?
Hmmm. I wonder if your political agenda and contempt for CPS is blinding you to the financial black hole that's opening it's maw under your middle-class feet.
Pay attention Richard, it's a more complicated problem than MOST want to see.. and have fun paying those high insurance premiums - they're coming in another three years - to cover the medical costs of the lifetime's worth of health issues that morbidly obese children will grow up with.
foodandart, you may mean well but clearly are focused more on your insurance premiums than the children. helping families would be more productive than ripping children out of their homes and exposing them to the risk of abusive foster care which, sadly, is common.
I think that as a parent we make the decisions what we feed our kids. Some parents should not be parents because of the example they set and the values that they teach their kids in what they eat. A healthy diet based on good nutrition is an essential part for a child to grow into a well balanced adult. Research tells us that Child Obesity is a growing worldwide problem. Diet is one of the major contributing factors causing child obesity. If you are to get your child to change their diet you have to make it fun, interesting and yummy to eat. Imagine if you could get them to make their own healthy chocolate snacks and treats. You have then dealt with making 2 behavioural changes 1/ Changed their diet 2/ Got them off the couch and away from TV/computer. I recently bought an eBook called Chocolate Against Child Obesity, it covers how to achieve this in a simple and easy way. The author describes how we can use natural, healthy chocolate to help win the war on child obesity. I was very sceptical at the start but after I read the eBook and followed her guidelines I found it informative, helpful and most of all I really enjoyed the interaction between myself and my kids as we put together some of her recipes, it was great. The kids loved making the recipes and then eating their healthy chocolate snacks and treats.
There are praticial things that we as parents can do sometimes we just have to think outside the square and we need a bit of help and guidence.
You can't blame the media for this one. The original stories included all that boilerplate about "last resort." The problem is this doctor hasn't got a clue about how the child welfare system really works. It is a system that a grand jury once described as having "few checks and no balance." Everyone in it *always* says they use foster care as a last resort, yet tens of thousands of children are taken needlessly every year.
Clearly this doctor has no clue about the enormous emotional trauma this separation inflicts on children, not to mention the studies showing abuse in one quarter to one third of foster homes (the record of group homes and institutions is worse).
Encourage child protective services to tear apart families because a child is overweight and they'll do it over and over - and every time they'll claim it's a "last resort."
Self restraint by CPS? Fat chance.
Richard Wexler Executive Director National Coalition for Child Protection Reform www.nccpr.org
Well this is a wake up call for all those parents who does not pay attention to their children. I totally agree with you about foster care but are you trying to tell me that it is ok for a parent to continue have their child eating processed/fast food and sitting on the cough watching TV or playing video games OK? That is not a good parent. Foster care is bad and good because there are a lot of children who were brought up in foster care and turned out very well and a lot didn't. Just like a lot of parents who are abusing their children by allowing them to become overweight. A good parent teaches their children good eating habits from infant and let them have a lot of physical activities. If we allow our children to grow up FAT what are we as parents doing for them. Shorter life span, and a lot of diseases. Is that what you would want for your child. I would want my child to have a very long and healthy life.
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Soooo, How about we stop coming up with excuses to take children away from poor people and reform their access to real, healthy, chemical free food?
Still MORE economic persecution? Yet we consider ourselves a civilized nation...
Hmmm. I wonder if your political agenda and contempt for CPS is blinding you to the financial black hole that's opening it's maw under your middle-class feet.
Pay attention Richard, it's a more complicated problem than MOST want to see.. and have fun paying those high insurance premiums - they're coming in another three years - to cover the medical costs of the lifetime's worth of health issues that morbidly obese children will grow up with.
Peace,
I recently bought an eBook called Chocolate Against Child Obesity, it covers how to achieve this in a simple and easy way. The author describes how we can use natural, healthy chocolate to help win the war on child obesity. I was very sceptical at the start but after I read the eBook and followed her guidelines I found it informative, helpful and most of all I really enjoyed the interaction between myself and my kids as we put together some of her recipes, it was great. The kids loved making the recipes and then eating their healthy chocolate snacks and treats.
There are praticial things that we as parents can do sometimes we just have to think outside the square and we need a bit of help and guidence.
Clearly this doctor has no clue about the enormous emotional trauma this separation inflicts on children, not to mention the studies showing abuse in one quarter to one third of foster homes (the record of group homes and institutions is worse).
Encourage child protective services to tear apart families because a child is overweight and they'll do it over and over - and every time they'll claim it's a "last resort."
Self restraint by CPS? Fat chance.
Richard Wexler
Executive Director
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
www.nccpr.org