British Taking Fat Kids Away

[ClydeR]

The mother and father of seven children, six of whom are overweight, face the "unbearable" prospect of never seeing their four youngest again if authorities act on a threat to remove them.

Three girls aged 11, five and one, and a boy aged five, are to be put up for adoption or "fostered without contact" because their parents failed to help them slim down.

This means the parents will be unable to trace them and the family could only be reunited if the children attempt to find their family when they are grown up.

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Good or bad?

If parents in the United States let their kids get fat -- not just fat, but obese -- should we take the kids away and send them to a foster home?

[Jace Solo]

That. Is. Awesome.

[Ardwen]

Can we tell them Clyde is an obese child so they can take him away?

[SpiffyJr]

I agree. Baring some insane medical condition (I'm not a doctor, so don't ask me what) there is no reason for children to be as overweight as many are now days.

[Thickbeard]

If your kid is obese then you are a shitty parent, but who would want to adopt an obese kid? Any parent looking to adopt would take one look and be like "no way in hell." Sounds like an empty threat to me.

[Tgo01]

If your kid is obese then you are a shitty parent, but who would want to adopt an obese kid? Any parent looking to adopt would take one look and be like "no way in hell." Sounds like an empty threat to me.

This has been another moment of "If Heartless people ruled the world."

[Atlanteax]

Wow, Nienique is getting proactive I see.

[~Rocktar~]

It's a bad idea and worse precedent. Just one more step on the road of government child rearing that can't end well.

[Thickbeard]

This has been another moment of "If Heartless people ruled the world."

Why the fuck do I have so much negative rep for truth telling? Who the hell would adopt some fat mongoloid from a poor person's gene pool? Who here would honestly go to an adoption place and look at some MORBIDLY OBESE teenager and be like "I want that in my home, and I will nurture and lovingly provide for this."?

The only adopted children I grew up with were blue-eyed and blonde, and one turned out to have antisocial personality disorder! I am offering discourse on the fucked up nature of our society -- looks before character. Adoptive parents don't give a shit about things like early infantile development or gifted obese children.

"Give me the blonde-haired blue-eyed child, he will match my designer handbag! You say he is antisocial? Whatever, he is cute!"

[Tgo01]

Who the hell would adopt some fat mongoloid from a poor person's gene pool? Who here would honestly go to an adoption place and look at some MORBIDLY OBESE teenager and be like "I want that in my home, and I will nurture and lovingly provide for this."?

Why the fuck do I have so much negative rep for truth telling?

It sure is a mystery.