tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post2051785647244091090..comments2024-03-17T10:07:53.205-07:00Comments on The Well-Rounded Mama: Blame the Mothers: Fat Children Equals Child Abuse?Well-Rounded Mamahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04129621631406155340noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-46422765093723983602013-07-30T09:15:29.526-07:002013-07-30T09:15:29.526-07:00I live in constant fear of CPS not only because my...I live in constant fear of CPS not only because my child is fat, but because I do pretty much everything against the norm. Homebirthing, bed sharing, feeding my child raw milk, no vaccines, we almost never go to the doctor, definitely do not ever give antibiotics, I let her run around naked if she chooses, I don't hellicopter parent and allow her freedom to do what she wants within reason, and eventually I will home school as well. I'm sure there are social workers who would faint looking at my family and try to get me thrown in jail. Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03576504078115706818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-18849785765808057152013-07-28T15:08:03.654-07:002013-07-28T15:08:03.654-07:00I wrote about this previously here:
http://wellro...I wrote about this previously here:<br /><br />http://wellroundedmama.blogspot.com/2011/07/taking-away-fat-kids-again.html<br /><br />And here's NAAFA's take on it:<br /><br />http://www.naafaonline.com/newsletterstuff/oldnewsletterstuff/September%202011%20NAAFA%20Newsletter.html<br /><br />Here's the case of Anamarie Regino, who was taken from her parents many years ago but didn't lose weight in foster care:<br /><br />http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/135885/anamarie_4_years_later/<br /><br />http://abcnews.go.com/Health/childhood-obesity-call-parents-lose-custody/story?id=14068280<br /><br />http://fourcornersfreepress.com/heidelberg/0811.htmWell-Rounded Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04129621631406155340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-7845553903845266462013-07-28T14:50:21.492-07:002013-07-28T14:50:21.492-07:00Here's a story:
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/...Here's a story:<br /><br />http://www.salon.com/2011/11/29/is_childhood_obesity_abusive/Well-Rounded Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04129621631406155340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-80158815715573819562013-07-26T12:49:59.699-07:002013-07-26T12:49:59.699-07:00Children placed in foster care for being too fat h...Children placed in foster care for being too fat have sometimes gotten temporarily thinner in care, as most people do with a diet. But rarely do they become a "normal" BMI and usually the weight doesn't stay off, as it usually doesn't in any study with more than a year or two of follow-up.<br /><br />So the authorities say, Look, we got the child to be thinner! They return the child, the child regains the weight (as nearly all people do), and the mother is blamed again. <br /><br />Sometimes the child is still in foster care when the regain happens, or not much weight loss really occurs despite the diets. Sometimes they blame the child, thinking the child must be sneaking food, but sometimes they eventually recognize that hey, maybe the kid's weight is more complicated than simple intake/output. Sometimes the child even gets returned to the parents, but after the emotional damage of taking the child from the parent has been done. <br /><br />NAAFA has tracked some of these cases, but doesn't have the money or resources to track them all.<br /><br />I also recall seeing a case from quite a while ago where a super-fat toddler was taken from his home, much publicity was made of his "neglectful and ignorant" parents, the case was on a bunch of talk shows, and everyone shook their heads over the terrible parenting that "let" that child get so fat. <br /><br />A year or so later, I remember hearing a small follow-up on the case, barely publicized at ALL, where the authorities admitted the child had a serious medical problem (I don't recall what it was) that was the real source of his weight. It wasn't the parents' fault at all, but a genetic thing. But that got almost NO press.Well-Rounded Mamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04129621631406155340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4738062031052371885.post-92039018899704069962013-07-25T21:38:07.263-07:002013-07-25T21:38:07.263-07:00Has any child taken away from his or her parents i...Has any child taken away from his or her parents in order to make him or her socially acceptably thin actually become socially acceptably thin? Has anybody tracked this?<br /><br />Jenny IslanderAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com