[Melinator]

It sounds to me that the key question here is what do they mean by "malnourished". Sending a child to bed without supper, giving them chores to do and even spanking them are common sense and wholly acceptable disciplinary practises in my view. Starving them is not.

However, it is not unusual for a children's service agency to throw in "malnourished" as an allegation against parents when they are not really sure if they have "enough" to justify repossessing the Government's children and future slaves. I was a skinny kid, and I was expected to work my butt off in sub-zero temperatures (tending farm animals in an unheated barn), but I sure as heck was never "malnourished" - I just had a very high fitness and metabolism level.

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However, it is not unusual for a children's service agency to throw in "malnourished" as an allegation against parents when they are not really sure if they have "enough" to justify repossessing the Government's children and future slaves.

And they’ll prove it in court after blood tests reveal a 10% deficiency from the national standard in their Vitamin B12 levels.

I don’t know what the case is here, but “malnourished” is a handy weapon for the statists to throw around.

[luckystarmom]

I will say that saying a kid is "malnourished" can be misleading. My 7 year old son completely looks malnourished. He barely eats anything, and he still doesn't weigh 50 lbs.

Now, his 5 year old sister is a little hefty. She already weighs 55 lbs. Her identical twin sister weighs 45 lbs.

I give them all the same things, and they all eat differently.