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Are parents responsible for morbidly obese children?

By WINK News

A 13-year old Florida boy is tipping the scales at 400 pounds.
Now his mother fears the state will take him away.
What do you think?
Should the DCF intervene if a child is morbidly obese?
Is that considered abuse?
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Wednesday, Oct 21 at 12:34 PM Anonymous wrote ...

someone else on one way or another, but its not to the point of needing to be rude cause when you do that then no matte what they are better than you are cause of your rudeness. that is how i was raised and it is true, so stop saying nasty things and relize you are not perfect you may be thin but you could be sickly. or you may be half gone in the mind we are no better than the next one way or the other your just as bad as the next you talk about. GOD bless ya all. us all.

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Wednesday, Oct 21 at 12:30 PM Anonymous wrote ...

can be placed on skinny people like looking sick all the time, under mile nutrition, or something wrong with them, not being taken care of so on , so before you put heavy people down remember there is plenty wrong with to skinny as well at least we look healthy, this is a world of wrongs instead of helping those inneed instead we spend more time judgeing and not seeing what we can do to help, to many think they are better than someone else no one is better then the next. we all are better than

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Wednesday, Oct 21 at 12:26 PM Anonymous wrote ...

like me i don't have a job not cause i don't want one there not there, nothing i can do. and i eat normal meals a day still put on weight and it is easy to do not because we want to be that way, but no excersice and with the bone medical problems many of excercises i am not able to do so as i said there is many medical problems that cause things, and for people that are so skinny the look like they are walking dead id rather stay big at least i look healthy yes theres many names and things that

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Wednesday, Oct 21 at 12:22 PM cowgirldiva77@yahoo.com wrote ...

no i do not think parents should be held responsable, cause there is several children left home while parents work and do as they want, no matter how old, and you can't blam it on parents weight cause it could be thyroid problems, so many reasons why it may not be there falt the problem is children services goes for children don't need removed and leave the ones that need removed those are the ones that end up gone, cause the ignored what they needed to do. thats how i feel.about children serv.

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Thursday, Oct 15 at 8:00 AM cindy wrote ...

should be foster homes already

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Thursday, Oct 15 at 7:59 AM cindy wrote ...

that's....foster homes already

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Thursday, Oct 15 at 7:57 AM cindy wrote ...

The mother is obese,you can see that she don't do much.does she work? or tax pays paying for them? if she working and taking care of a child leave them alone. kid looks happy and don't care if he's heavy.why put him in a over loaded system. dcf should worry about chilren that are being abused and children that are in foster homes alway.

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