“Do you not think that over the past 20 months social services has not tried all of that?”
I don’t have any idea what Social Services tried/didn’t try or offered in way of help. I don’t have a great deal of trust in Social Services. I have seen where they have sent home a toddler from the hospital with cigarette burns all over her little body. Sent home to the same idiot who was burning her in the first place. With so much emphasis right now on a certain weight, there is the possibility that an over-reaction has occurred. To separate a boy from his parents and shove him into a foster home (where people are paid for each child they take) is not helping the child IMHO. He’s eight years old and now living with strangers whose primary goal is to make him thin. No goal of psychological support, love, compassion. This will all pan out in court and the family has a PUBLIC DEFENDER. Public defenders are not known as money grubbing lawyers.
This whole thing went before a judge-
the courts are notoriously reluctant to take kids out of families, I know.... Just try adopting one, read about all they go through before the system steps in and takes them
The question here is not of obesity, but of morbid obesity and a family’s failure to control it after 20 months of supervised home treatment and intervention
Big difference- esp since this kid is still only 8 years old
Morbid obesity has severe medical consequences if left untreated. Knowing the court system a bit, I also expect the doctors have documented for the courts their diagnosis and expectation he could recover with proper treatment they no longer believe he can get at home