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CMV: Overweight children are being abused by their parents.

There is absolutely no reason a child should be fat. When I see kids at Walmart (no older than 5) inhaling large things of McDonald's french fries, my heart hurts for them. This is disgusting and what's even more disgusting is that we accept it as norm. Fat adults? Okay go for it - it's a free country. If you want to be gluttonous, have at the buffet, have at the carinogenic foods... But please, don't force your poor choices onto an innocent child.

To me - seeing an overweight child is no different than seeing a starved child. If a child is starved, the parents of said child lose custody of he/she and are charged with endangerment yet people will just joke and laugh if the child is obese. And I know what some people are going to say, "Oh there's medications that will cause a kid to balloon up..." Or "...Medical conditions." Problem with these excuses? It requires a doctor to diagnose these diseases and it requires a doctor to prescribe these medications. No one stresses more about childhood obesity than pediatricians. 

If your child is gaining weight, even on a healthy diet and whilst receiving a normal amount of excercise, any certified Doctor will know exactly what to do to prevent the child from becoming overweight. A medical condition or medication is very very rarely (if at all) an excuse for overfeeding your children. All of that weight doesn't come from thin air - the child has to be eating up to a point where their body has no other option but to store it. On top of the numerous health defects included with childhood obesity, a child will have to face ridicule, bullying, and insecurity. It's disgusting that teachers are forced to let this fly under their radars yet will call CPS at the first sign of a bruise, a harmless doodle of a gun, or the sound of a growling stomach.
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For poor families, often the only material luxury they can afford for their children is food. 

Poverty makes parents feel like terrible parents — they have to tell their children “no” constantly. Indulging their children with junk food makes them feel like good parents (whereas for wealthier parents the opposite is true).

But irregardless, CPS is an absolute last resort. Removing a child from a family is itself a form of abuse, and putting the child at risk in so many new ways.