Frankly, I think these people should be prosecuted and I'm not talking about the parents but the state jobsworths who feel they have some sort of God Given Right to steal other people's children because they don't like the look of them.
Dundee Council thinks it can just hide behind its usual : "Fuck off because we say so and our word is truth and we don't have to justify a fucking thing to the general arsewipe public because the law allows us to hide behind the anonymity of those kids we can steal from parents we don't like to justify our jobs."
I honestly wish that the term "child abuse" was subject to the same bollox as Godwin's Law which is meant to stop people bandying about the term "Nazi" in case the actual horror of what happened in the holocaust gets lost or diminshed by lesser complaints about an abuse of human rights.
It should also apply to child abuse - a term that is often bandied about to turn public opinion against good parents that the state deems unfit in some way - either because they are overweight or because they are smokers.
Child abuse is serious. It is not about a child eating too much, or a parent smoking somewhere in their house. It is when real and tragic harm is done purposely to a child either in a severe physical, sexual or physcological sense. Saying because a child is fat means, ergo, it is "abused" just doesn't cut it to justify the salaries we the public pay these jobsworths employed as child catchers to boost this NuPublic Health Dept's ideology.
The creeps at Dundee are making a grave and inhumane error and they don't even have to give any other reason than "we said so":
Three girls aged 11, five and one, and a boy aged five, are to be put up for adoption or "fostered without contact" because their parents failed to help them slim down.
This means the parents will be unable to trace them and the family could only be reunited if the children attempt to find their family when they are grown up.
Social services warned the couple three years ago that their children would be taken away from them if they did not bring their weight under control.
The couple, from Dundee, are not guilty of any crime and have faced no accusations of deliberate abuse or cruelty.
Critics said the case, which is without precedent in Britain, was a serious breach of the family's human rights and exposed the worrying extent to which the State can interfere in family life.
Too bloody right! The state has NO right to interfere in family life in the quest to ensure the perfect human specimen and backing this perverse action under the guise of "child abuse" is immoral and should be criminal.
I think it's time that Nazi comparison was allowed and even became mainstream to suit people like this. If the Govt wants to make cuts, it must trim down that all powerful Fourth Reich Public Health and give it proper work to do.
Being overweight or smoking is nothing to do with epidemics. Personally, I'd rather Public Health stopped persecuting the imperfect and began to look at how to stop REAL epidemics like the blasted flu that kills many old people every year and is a much greater threat to children and babies' health and life chances than a burger or a wisp of SHS.
Finally, as one who has just found out that I actually spent more on petrol last year getting to and from work, meetings, and interviews, than the whole family's food budget, I sincerely do wonder how people can afford to eat themselves overweight that much.
I think instead of hiring people to steal children from their parents, public health might actually invest some cash in unbiased research to find out if genetics has anything to do with it.