<p>I was reading this online and I’m wondering if its right for obese children to be taken away from parents and charged with child abuse… it seems wrong. </p>
<p>[S.C</a>. case looks on child obesity as child abuse. But is it? - USATODAY.com](<a href=“http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-07-20-obesityboy_N.htm]S.C”>http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2009-07-20-obesityboy_N.htm)</p>
<p>555 pounds before age 14? If that’s not child abuse then I don’t know what is. I couldn’t imagine being that big and if I was I would have seriously contemplated suicide.</p>
<p>There’s a difference between having a fat child and having a child that weighs three times as much as an adult man at 14 years of age. Something clearly went wrong in the parenting process if the latter happens.</p>
<p>If a kid is morbidly obese- not just overweight- then yes, that’s definitely child abuse. I don’t care if she’s trying to help her child lose weight now- what was going on when he was gaining all that weight?</p>
<p>I don’t know if it’s “abuse,” but I would definitely say that the parents are unfit to be raising a child. If she was truly doing “everything she could do to help him lose weight,” then clearly he needs to be under someone else’s care. He could die being that heavy.</p>
<p>yes, abuse requires malicious intent, in my opinion. If she was simply incompetent that isn’t her fault, though in extreme cases it might mean her child needs to be taken away.</p>