Should obese kids be taken from their families by CPS to improve their health?
This is very tricky, because, at first I’m thinking to myself that the government shouldn’t be allowed to remove children from their parents based on obesity. Then I’m thinking that, if the parents are really the ones causing the problem and the problem has become very dangerous for the child, then that is a form of child neglect or even possibly abuse. I think that sometimes social services gets carried away and removes a child from a home and asks questions later. We’ve all heard horror stories of blameless parents who lost their child(ren) and took years to recover them once a person or persons in social services had made up their mind about the case and that the parents were to blame. However, we have all heard even more stories where children “fell between the cracks” and were horribly abused, neglected and even died or were intentionally killed by parents. I wouldn’t like to see something like this get way out of control, like two or three decades ago when some child caregivers w
