British social workers are placing obese children on a child protection list along with children considered at risk for sexual or physical abuse, reports The Times of London.
In extreme cases children have been placed in foster care because their parents have contributed to the health problems of their offspring by failing to respond to medical advice.
. . . Some doctors even advocate taking legal action against parents for illtreating their children by feeding them so much that they develop health problems.
One complain is that fat children use more than their share of National Health services.
Al Capp covered this quite awhile ago, when Dogpatch got reclassified as a, animal preserve where all their cares were attended to – then came a budget cut and an order to thin the herd.
And people here think socialized medicine would be good for America.
Who are the fat police?
(Apologies to Frank Zappa.)