Children taken from parents for being fat: Outrage as social workers break up 'loving' family

Children taken from parents for being fat: Outrage as social workers break up 'loving' family | Mail Online:

Social services faced outrage yesterday for taking four obese children from their parents.
The couple have lost a three-year battle with the authorities and their youngest children – girls aged 11, seven and one, and a boy of five – will either be ‘fostered without contact’ or adopted.
The move follows a failed attempt to solve the children’s weight problem by putting the family in a ‘Big Brother’ house, having a social worker present to monitor all meal times, and imposing a curfew and strict rules about their lifestyle.
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They must just as well have been put in prison! A Social Worker watching their every move? Give me a break!