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Subject:Re: Known removal of morbidly obese child for "medical neglect"
It's happened before. There were cases about a decade ago in New Mexico and Indiana. Earlier this year, ABC News revisited the New Mexico case: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/childhood-obesity-call-parents-lose-custody/story?id=14068280#.TtO4_bJCqU8
What I found fascinating in this most recent case is how much more help the child welfare agency apparently is willing to give to the foster mother than to the birth mother - and the fact that the mother is now even allowed to visit the child for more than two hours per week. Details, and a link to the Plain Dealer story are on our Child Welfare Blog, www.nccprblog.org
Richard Wexler
Executive Director
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202)
Alexandria VA 22314
703-212-2006
www.nccpr.org
In a message dated 11/28/2011 10:24:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, clynngd@umich.edu writes:
Well, it's happened. Anyone see the Cleveland Plain Dealer? Here's the
link through yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-puts-200-pound-third-grader-foster-care-191032515.html
There's been some commentary from the Cleveland Plain Dealer that asks
the right question: when does morbid obesity constitute imminent risk
of harm? We visited this topic as a listserv a few months ago when the
researcher from Boston proposed this. What should be done now that
such removals are apparently becoming reality?
Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis, MTS, MSW
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science
c/o University of Michigan School of Social Work
1080 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
616.893.6845 (cell)
clynngd@umich.edu
"The most dangerous of all helpers is the one who has solved his or
her own problem and has forgotten what it cost." - Alan Keith-Lucas.
It's happened before. There were cases about a decade ago in New Mexico and Indiana. Earlier this year, ABC News revisited the New Mexico case: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/childhood-obesity-call-parents-lose-custody/story?id=14068280#.TtO4_bJCqU8
What I found fascinating in this most recent case is how much more help the child welfare agency apparently is willing to give to the foster mother than to the birth mother - and the fact that the mother is now even allowed to visit the child for more than two hours per week. Details, and a link to the Plain Dealer story are on our Child Welfare Blog, www.nccprblog.org
Richard Wexler
Executive Director
National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
53 Skyhill Road (Suite 202)
Alexandria VA 22314
703-212-2006
www.nccpr.org
In a message dated 11/28/2011 10:24:39 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, clynngdumich.edu writes:
Well, it's happened. Anyone see the Cleveland Plain Dealer? Here's the
link through yahoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/ohio-puts-200-pound-third-grader-foster-care-191032515.html
There's been some commentary from the Cleveland Plain Dealer that asks
the right question: when does morbid obesity constitute imminent risk
of harm? We visited this topic as a listserv a few months ago when the
researcher from Boston proposed this. What should be done now that
such removals are apparently becoming reality?
Claudette L. Grinnell-Davis, MTS, MSW
PhD Candidate, University of Michigan
Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Social Science
c/o University of Michigan School of Social Work
1080 S. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
616.893.6845 (cell)
clynngdumich.edu
"The most dangerous of all helpers is the one who has solved his or
her own problem and has forgotten what it cost." - Alan Keith-Lucas.
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