morbidly obese children could be taken from parents?

My opinion is that a diet and exercise plan should be given to the parents to do with their child, and give them some time to see if they follow through with it. If the parents refuse to help their child, then it is time to put them somewhere where they can get healthy again.

I'm sure this will be news to you, but Americans have a constitutional right to raise their children as they see fit. The bill is a horrible idea. As if every kid in foster care now is physically fit.

Weak people want the government to do everything for them. Why don't you offer to adopt an obese kid and be 100% responsible for the health, care and education of that kid? Still think it's a good idea?

Medical exams should be given first, time for parents to change their children eating habits, i don't think forster homes are the way to go? maybe mix of therapy and summer camps. I'm pretty sure most of the parents with overweight children aren't actually trying to make there children fat on purpose or as a form of punishment?

That is gross and NOT in the best interests of the child!! It is sensationalist political garbage and not a move to care for children!

How ignorant and naive do you have to be to believe that damaging the child's psychological development by forcing him/her from his/her's parents, family, friends and home; leaving them with mental wounds to deal with for the rest of their lives is justified for something as comparatively easily remedied as being over-weight.

Better education on eating right, better school lunches, and a shift in laws regarding the way food is marketed to children would have awesome impacts on childhood obesity issues. Frankly, that we allow companies to develop ads specifically to emotionally manipulate our vulnerable and still psychologically developing children is gross and repulsive.

Tearing families apart isn't going to improve any child's health. Go ask any "broken" family anywhere.

******es.

Yeah cuz if the parent refuse to see that their kid is lazy and over eats!! than something needs to be done, the kid or parent should not just say or think "oh well I'll just get surgery!" Some genetics cause kids to be overweight but I do not believe they would not me consider morbidly obese if they watched what they ate and was not lazy!!

Be taken away from the parents, placed in foster care and have our tax dollars take care of them. Leave the kids with the parents and educate them both

Boot camp for Obese kids, educate the parents,and hope it works.

That failing,then more drastic measures need to be taken.

After all Morbidly Obese means they can die,and that is severe neglect at the very least.

a) i agree that extreme obesity is somethign that needs to be dealt with

b) foster care? I would think more rehabilitation camp because healthwise, it's true that starvation can be the same as extreme obesity but intention wise it definitely isn't. I'm sure a lot of parents who end up making their kids extremely obese aren't aware of what they are doing and causing, where as starvation is a clear voluntary act of not feeding your child. So i would think more like put the kid to rehabilitation camp a few months, perhaps half a year, until he/she develops good eating habbits, and then given back to his family. This could act as a warning to parents, and service people could check in every 2 months on the first year of being back home to see if the kid is sticking to what he is doing... if this is not the case he goes back to health rehab, if this occurs 3 times, THEN foster care could be implemented.

Like this, the parents have been warned and its not just a sudden "we think your kid is too unhealthily fat and so we're taking him/her away from you"

:) but I do agree that fat needs to be controled... lots of food wasted too in the massive consumption

That is a horrible thing to do. As if those kids will really be better off if they are taken away from their family. That will do more harm than good. The fact that they are even considering this is sickening.

I think its a great idea. You are meant to give your kids a healthy start in life and whatever they do after they leave home is their choice.