So Much About Human Rights

I did read the article and it seemed as though the Social workers had intended to take away the children even if the parents had obeyed and I am sure they the parents did what they thought was right. The trouble is that there should have been a dietician who should have shown the parents how to make delicious and healthy meals considering their income. I have watched many health programs where a dietician tries to get a family to eat healthier and she shows them recipes that they can use and encourages the wife to try them out. But obviously in this case, this did not happen. Sl then parents who had no idea of what was healthy - like a salad with that spaghetti boulenaise, did not have a chance.

skysuccess, hi, You have hit a sore part with me on this, the two worst things in this country are social workers and attorneys. Personally I think they should all be docked money from their paycheck every time they pull some such stunt as this. I worked with convicts as a corrections officer for 35 years and I saw the system deteriorate with each new batch of social workers that came out of school. You know how to tell if a social worker or attorney are lying?

I really don't understand why this so called Human Rights are trying to make others family life miserable. They should concentrate doing social justice and not to interfere in family matters. They have overshot the boundary of their jobs.It is so inhuman of this group to tear apart a happy family just because they see a little discrepancies in the family's parenting. How dare they touch my family if this so called social workers threatened to take away my kids. I will fight tooth and nail to keep my family intact.

Hello there, The last I've heard of a weird social workers taking away their childrens was because the couple was accidentally found out to be brothers and sisters, that was in germany. I think it would have been better if they enrolled the kids into a gym class or like that biggest looser contest, they can have training therebu but why take the children away as if they can help them loose weight or something. there's gotta a law suit about this for them to fight for their children.

There are good to honest people in the in the welfare sector of the government and this agency and there's no doubt not a few have responded for what they are payed for. But there are times for which the quarters or the dorm isn't full, so they "recruit" even those with less serious cases just so to keep the funds keep coming in and maintain employment

I'm not sure what to think. I didn't read the article yet, but will later. I live in the US and we also have social workers called CPS (Child Protective Services), that do the same when they feel children are in danger. However, I feel that the system isn't a good one. Children that need pulled out of a bad situation sometimes are over looked, and a few cases of children who were pulled out that shouldn't have been. They system is flawed. When my best friend was a child, I think those kids should have been pulled out of the family situation they were in. The sit. was let known but nothing was ever done about it.

Personally I would not consider having bigger children anything to worry about unless the parents are feeding them all the wrong types of foods, and/or fixing them huge meals and then forcing them to eat everything. In reality is there not other things to worry about when it comes to children than this? Yes, there are a lot of overweight kids these days, but doing something like this seems a little out of the unordinary for sure.

I just read the entire article. It is more than just socialist, it is draconian. I couldn't believe this was happening in Britain. What a terrible thing,to take away ones children because they are overweight. If they followed that policy in Australia, over half the population of children would be taken away, never again to be seen by their parents. Even if the children had to be fostered for genuine reasons, they should have been allowed to regularly ssee their parents, as is the case here. It is well acknowedged and understood, that children fair far better with their natural parents, and if that can't happen, they need regular positive contact with their parents. What sort of training have these social workers have? How did they think they were helping the family by watching them eat and taking notes? I just can't believe this is happening in a modern society. Sure, the parents need to take action to reduce their childrens weight, and it may be that they were neglectful in not taking them to a dietician. But you dont remove children from their families for that reason? What happened to the lets support families theory?

well first of all, this is the daily mail. it's not known for reasonable and unbiased journalism. from the photo, yes, they are a bit chubby, but certainly not to an extraordinary extent. nothing you woudln't expect to see on an average day. the article mentions what THEIR lawyer calls "low grade parenting problems" which indicates that there is more to this case than just the weight of the children. it goes on to mention that the youngest child wasn't sufficiently supervised, and also that the child tries to put "dangerous objects" in her mouth. the parents say she hasn't succeeded, but combined with not being sufficiently supervised, it might be just a matter of time until she does succeed. I think that there's more to this story than meets the eye. I've seen fatter children left undisturbed in their family units. everything about this article suggests that there are more issues involved than just the childrens weight. the funny thing is, I bet if you search the daily mail site for articles about childhood obesity, it will include calls for the children to be removed from parents that persist in feeding them badly. without a doubt from the readers comments and probably in the articles themselves. but when it looks like it might happen, they write an article like this. I do beleive that it's not just the childrens weight that is a concern to social services.

I think that the act of social workers taking children away from their parents is really something that is quite out of line. For example, last night a friend of mine was telling me about one of her friend's daughter who is blind and as a result has a lot of sensory issues with her other senses. She almost had her daughter taken away from her because she was not putting on weight the way that she should have. I think that is bull, but it does happen all the time anyway.