Should extremely obese children be taken from parents?
[2023-08-15 15:25:10]
If you can not control your child's weight, should the government intervene and keep them?
The review of the Journal of the American Medical Association is similar. According to the Associated Press, the comment said in the extreme case that temporarily including children in foster parents may be their best interest.
The author, David Ludwig, an obesity expert at Boston Children's Hospital, and Lindsey Murtagh, a lawyer and researcher at Harvard Public Health Graduate, told the Associated Press that their parents should not be blamed. Instead, government intervention should aim to support the whole family and may involve parental guidance.
"It may be necessary to protect children from time to time despite the discomfort caused by state intervention," Mr. Murta said.
A commentator writes to Yahoo as follows: "It is unfair to break the family's overweight, it is more harmful than good." News website
Still, childhood obesity is a matter of concern. Most of the 2 million extremely obese children in the United States do not suffer a life-threatening illness, but Dr. Ludwig died in the Associated Press by the age of 30 due to health problems related to obesity Some people said there was.
In some cases, the girl who attended his clinic had diabetes, a cholesterol level problem, high blood pressure, sleep apnea at age 12, weighing 400 pounds. Her parents do not have much money and disability and can not control their own weight.
"For medical reasons, I became a foster parent in this country, she only eats three balanced meals, one or two snacks a day, and moderate physical activity a day." She is still obese, but 130 pounds, she no longer has diabetes and sleep apnea
He pointed out that the health authorities also have a legal obligation to report severe, low weight children.
Are there any differences in the state's intervention, including severely low-grade infants and severe overweight children? Are you moving obese children away from their parents, or are they too extreme?
Parents of very obese children may lose their children. One of the most prominent medical journals in the United States has provocative comments that parents of "extreme obese children" should not lose custody because they do not manage their weight. Perhaps even more controversial, the children were sent to live with parents of anorexic children until everything was balanced. According to research, night owls may prefer to stay up late at night, but because people who are sleeping until late at night are more likely to develop diabetes, the possibility of harming health during middle age There is. Other health problems The only hope is to get very sick of listening to all the health risks that insomniacs eventually fall asleep.
"It is considered overweight now that there are about 9 million children over 6 years old" (Mahshid Dehghan). Childhood obesity continues to increase every year. Childhood obesity has many reasons, the center of which is the imbalance between energy and energy consumed. Factors of childhood obesity include children with obesity parents; low energy expenditure is due to low physical activity, too much television, this is the cause of low physical activity time. - Childhood obesity tripled in the past three years. Childhood obesity is considered the number one health threat in the United States. Childhood obesity is a major problem faced by the United States. Today more than 9 million (Sericia 4 in May) American children are overweight and obese. Unfortunately, these children 's "2 million people" (Tanner, 2005) are at risk of type 2 diabetes. Obesity is a burden to the US economy, and the US spends $ 147 billion annually (Holden, 2010).