254-Pound 7-Year-Old May Be Removed From Parents' Home

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How can a 7 year old get this big?! This is so sad!

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This is very, very sad. Child abuse or neglect? How/who can you say? What do the parents look like? Maybe they are large, also. Did he just learn their eating habits? There is always alot involved with these types of cases.
 
If I totalled up the weight of my 4 kids, they don't even come close to that!
 
OMG!!! That poor little boy looks horrible.Someone needs to help him and the parents.Maybe he has some serious medical condition that the parents are unaware of.Who knows.
 
MrsK2002 said:
OMG!!! That poor little boy looks horrible.Someone needs to help him and the parents.Maybe he has some serious medical condition that the parents are unaware of.Who knows.
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She said diets and doctors are not helping the child, who continues to gain weight at a rapid pace.
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If he keeps gaining weight imagine how big he'll be in a couple of years!
 
Has anyone checked this kid out for medical causes, or do they just automatically blame the parents?
 
She claimed the doctors aren't helping....:noidea:....but a neighbor supposedly 'tipped off' special services that she was 'feeding him all the time'....:noidea:

BTW she could use a salad too....
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I feel bad for the kid, but part of me says the neighbors need to learn to mind their own business, and "Social Services" should not exist in a free country.
But I keep forgetting, we don't live in a free country.
 
But Dan, if you legitimately saw your neighbors neglecting or abusing their child....would you not want to alert an agency to help the child? :noidea:

Of course, people will just report just to tick off their neighbors too....whether it's true or not..
 
I would approach the neighborbefriend them, and help them, not turn them in to some government jerks
 
But if they were horrible jerks to start with....say crack heads (?)....or just plain undesirable louts...what then? Don't want them as friends and the child needs a better environment...
 
For some people, food is love, so they want to give their kids lots of 'love.'
 
I think the parents need to be educated not chastised. This boy, like any other child loves his parents and they him. What good would taking him away from everything he loves and knows. Also, I agree medical reason need to be exhausted. Keep social services for the child molesters and crack addicts not for a case like this.
 
These are facts I got from The National Center for Health Statistics. If this continues we are going to see more and more cases like this. I just cannot believe how many kids are overweight! :(

Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese: 66.3

Percent of noninstitutionalized adults age 20 years and over who are obese: 32

Percent of adolescents age 12-19 years who are overweight: 17

Percent of children age 6-11 years who are overweight: 19
 
Mainebear said:
I think the parents need to be educated not chastised. This boy, like any other child loves his parents and they him. What good would taking him away from everything he loves and knows. Also, I agree medical reason need to be exhausted. Keep social services for the child molesters and crack addicts not for a case like this.
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I think they need to be educated and chastised. I mean, can they really not see whats happening to their child? Please. Wether its medical or gastronomical in nature is sort of moot. The parents should start having healthier foods and smaller portions, and if necessary they should get him any medical treatment he needs.

Ive said it before and Ill say it again. Too much of anything can make you an addict. And it doesnt help that here in the US we serve huge portions, and insist that the children clean their plate, even though its got double servings of eberything. And then we go on to say that unless you eat all four servings of mashed potatoes and fried chicken, you dont get any dessert.
 
I agree with you Squid. We are going to have a whole generation of kids with major health problems because we as adults have set them up with bad eating habits.
I have to say too if this were my kid I would be seeing every doctor, nutritionist and natropath until I found a solution. If this kid continues this way he is going to have a short life.
 
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