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Originally Posted by betenoire
200 Pound 3rd Grader Put In Foster Care
Maybe I'm an asshole, but I agree with this 100%. 20 months is a long time, that's nearly 2 years. If in 20 months of working with social workers the family wasn't able to get a handle on this - they never were going to. And apparently since going in to foster care (in October) the kid HAS lost some weight.
For a frame of reference to make clear how big of a deal it is for a 3rd Grade child to weigh 200 pounds: I am 34 years old, a grown woman. I also happen to be considered "obese". And I don't even weigh as much as that 8 year old does. Think about that. If fat Brandy the adult weighs less than 200 pounds - just how much medical trouble IS this 200 pound child in?
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When I read this initially I also thought that this was a good thing. But then I thought more about it and I'm on the fence. Imagine what this kind of thing will be like. Fat kids around the country can now, in addition to all the other bull shit they have to deal with, add worrying about losing their family. I can't imagine there really is a plethora of foster parents that are going to take in one child so the fat kid will end up in some kind of group home with a few to a bunch of other kids. Nice experience I'm sure. I can hear the other kids now. Your so fat even your own parents don't want you.
Parents of chubby kids can use this as a threat as well. You better stop eating or the state will come and take you and put you in fat jail. I can't even imagine how many eating disorders overweight kids will face as adults as a direct result of this kind of fear.