"Experts" think "overweight" kids should be taken from parents

When someone calls themselves an "expert" despite not showing any credentials to this effect, beware.

Now these self-anointed "experts" are demanding that "overweight" kids should be taken away from their parents. In a few locales, they already have been.

There's no logic behind this stance. Just the desire to make a "point" about the "obesity pandemic." I know this, because I'm sure nobody seriously thinks that an "overweight" kid is an automatic sign of abuse.

Children are being beaten daily, but they rarely get taken from their parents. In fact, right-wing activist courts have told parents they have a constitutional "right" to beat kids. (Courts in Minnesota and Hawaii have actually created this so-called "right" out of whole cloth where no such "right" previously existed.)

But if a kid seems to weigh a little more than average - even if the parents had no control over this - their parents will never get to see them again.

Why not try to educate families about children's health instead of punishing them for something they may have had no control over?

Next thing you know, states are going to start taking children away from their parents because they refuse to drug them with Ritalin. Wait, that's already been happening for 10 years.

This story is more proof that "experts" really don't know shit about anything.

(Source: http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/call-for-obese-kids-to-be-taken-into-care/2009/02/01/1233423045494.html)