Comments on: Ohio: county yanks obese child from family https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:49:28 +0000 hourly 1 By: LisaMarie https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135630 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:49:28 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135630 I dunno Ron, it makes sense. By taking the kid away, they are putting this at the same level of severity as, say, beating your kid. If social workers take a kid out of a home where they are being beaten and put them in a foster home where the foster parents beat them, they may well deserve to be fired.

]]> By: Ron Miller https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135429 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:12:29 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135429 I’m not sure why it follows that you would fire the social workers in that hypothetical, John.

]]> By: John Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135421 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:44:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135421 Logically, if the child was taken from the parents for their failure to reduce his weight, a failure to lose weight under foster care should result in the termination of t he foster parents and the firing of the social workers overseeing the process.

]]> By: No Name Guy https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135384 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:50:09 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135384 And from the opposite extreme – these parents were deliberately starving their kids to keep them from “getting fat”. The sick couple permanently lost custody of the 3 children they had, but she’s pregnant with another. I hope they take that child immediately upon birth.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016882590_labberton29m.html

In regards the topic case of this thread: Hard to say without more facts. Does the child have a metabolism / hormone issue? As stated in the article, what is the role of genetics in this particular case? The article indicates that the child in question was losing weight, but then started regaining it. The mother stated that the other kids started giving the child in question food outside of the supervised amounts. What role did that play in the weight gain?

]]> By: blhlls https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135358 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:49:16 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135358 Unfortunately, funds may be available to provide services while the child is in foster care which are not available for the same services if he is not in foster care.

]]> By: John Burgess https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135318 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:25:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135318 I’ve mixed feeling on this. As a 10-11 y/o, I weighed close to 250lbs. When I hit puberty, I shed over 100 of those pounds in just over a year.

I maintained the lower weight for better than 40 years, slowing gaining weight as I aged and led a less active life. I’m now pushing 190 on a 5’10” frame, heavier than I should be, but not about to fall over dead.

]]> By: BG https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135307 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:40:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135307 No one disputes the child needs to lose weight but there are real problems with the county providing services to foster parents that were never offered to the boy’s single mother. A bit of an analysis here.
http://www.nccprblog.org/2011/11/foster-care-in-cleveland-did-plain.html

Seems to me it would be a good idea to leave the child in his home and provide services there and skip the payments to the foster parent (who doesn’t have enough time to get this kid to his many appointments, and one is also left wondering how much school this honor roll kid is missing for his county appointments.)

]]> By: Ron Miller https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135306 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:38:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135306 You can have a 200 pound child because you neglect the child. The problem could also be parental neglect to a serious health condition. Which one are we dealing with here? None of us know. But I’m inclined to defer to child protective services without any other evidence.

]]> By: spo https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135293 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:48:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135293 The problem, of course, is that there is an 8 year old who weighs 200lbs, which is clearly a risk to his long-term health.

]]> By: spo https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/11/ohio-county-yanks-obese-child-from-family/comment-page-1/#comment-135292 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:47:42 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=25971#comment-135292 It’s patently obvious that there is a problem here. A couple of things–why is the boy only getting to see his mother for 2 hours a week? Second, given all the abuses by various child protective services agencies around the nation, it’s fair to ask whether this intervention is in the best interests of the child. I don’t think that most of these agencies have a “we broke it, we bought it” attitude–meaning that they don’t hold themselves accountable for outcomes.

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