Half Ton People

[LowFatMilk]

I'm a student social worker and while I have a long way to go I do have some knowledge in this area as we already studied child abuse/neglect.

In this country at least, that definately would not be considered child abuse or neglect. It would be considered the parents' right to smoke in the house as smoking in a private home is not illegal in any way. (Even in cases where illegal drugs are being used children are left in the home if the parents' addictions are considered to be "managed well", ie in a way which does not endanger the children.) I couldn't say if things are different in the US though.

No, of course not. Knowingly putting kids at risk for lung cancer is not endangering the children. Knowingly smoking in the home of children with asthma isn't wrong. Who the hell cares? Smoking isn't bad for anyone!! We live in age where we know smoking has no negative health effects on people. Sheesh.


The issue wasn't IS it considered child abuse/neglect, the issue is whether or not it should be considered abuse or neglect.

 

[busy91]

For those who didn't see it. The 19 year old was always a heavy kid.

The 'excuse' was that his mother lost a son before him, and was so happy that he was well, she would refuse him nothing, thus he gained the weight. She doted on him with food (a lot of it).

She can see in hindsight that it was not the way to go. The mom also has a lot of attachment issues with him. Lots of dysfunction going on there.

 

[shae]

You'd think that that would be taken as child abuse, but apparently it's not.

Well if you starve your child it is called neglect. But you can feed them as much as you like, give them physical and emotional health problems for the rest of their life, and that's fine.

What's wrong with this world? I feel sorry for children who are treated that way.

 

[LowFatMilk]

Well if you starve your child it is called neglect. But you can feed them as much as you like, give them physical and emotional health problems for the rest of their life, and that's fine.

What's wrong with this world? I feel sorry for children who are treated that way.

I've seen children actually call Child Protective Services because their mother was trying to get them to eat healthier. He called saying that there was no food in the house and that they were starving him (At eight years old I believe he did this). Needless to say that caused many problems for the family, but I won't go into detail.

What's wrong with the world? The people.

 

[~~Jane~~]

No, of course not. Knowingly putting kids at risk for lung cancer is not endangering the children. Knowingly smoking in the home of children with asthma isn't wrong. Who the hell cares? Smoking isn't bad for anyone!! We live in age where we know smoking has no negative health effects on people. Sheesh.


The issue wasn't IS it considered child abuse/neglect, the issue is whether or not it should be considered abuse or neglect.

I was not sharing my personal opinions just fact about how things are seen in law in this country...

But I apologise if I spoke out of turn.

 

[LowFatMilk]

I was not sharing my personal opinions just fact about how things are seen in law in this country...

But I apologise if I spoke out of turn.

You`re entitled to say what you want on a community forum. I wasn`t being sarcastic towards you, simply towards the country.

 

[LeaJnice]

For those who didn't see it. The 19 year old was always a heavy kid.

The 'excuse' was that his mother lost a son before him, and was so happy that he was well, she would refuse him nothing, thus he gained the weight. She doted on him with food (a lot of it).

She can see in hindsight that it was not the way to go. The mom also has a lot of attachment issues with him. Lots of dysfunction going on there.

Totally saw the show. I watched a whole day of tlc with all those shows as well as the brookhaven. Well I on demanded them so I could watch them whenever. Either way It is hard for me to even imagine feeding my son so much crap. There are so many other ways to show love. I do always notice that on all of those shows the parents,siblings,couples, whatever are always overweight. I guess we all know that its a cycle... When I was a kid I would not eat at lunch because I was embarred to eat in front of people(I was about 120 lbs in 4th grade(arent healthy kids like under 60 lbs or something?)(200 lbs in 7th grade) When I got home from school my grandpa would make me 2 grilled cheeses,a grape soda,a hostess cake and then for dinner I would eat a whole pizza(tonys), a pack of zebra cakes,2 orange sodas,ect. I would get a quarter pounder which was a number 7 when I lived when I was under ten! Everyone in my family was overweight. It was normal to eat like that. When I hit age 14 I decided to lose weight and got off my butt. But then I went to not eating instead of eating too much. A whole control thing a suppose... I don't really feel bad for the people that let themselves get that big. Now I can see how to you can get to 300 maybe even 400 lbs.. But seriously there should be a point in someones like where they say I need to do something about this and do it. I just hope I can be a good example for my kids...When my family watched my 2 yr old son they feed him crap all day. They say he is only 2 but I feel that when he is ten they will say hes only ten and I dont want him to go through what I did. I need to find a balance because I am terrifed that I will give my son body image issue since I have so many...