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Dr. David Ludwig, an obesity specialist at Harvard-affiliated Children's Hospital Boston, said the point isn't to blame parents, but rather to act in children's best interest and get them help that for whatever reason their parents can't provide.
This is what bothers me the most about the article. If the parents are not to blame then who? And, there is a broken system of care for all foster kids in the US, the last thing a super obese child or teen needs is to be put into the system when there are other approaches that can be taken that would probably be less expensive in the long run. Like funding summer camps for these kids to attend to learn new eating habits that they can take home and teach their families. No child should ever be removed from the love of their parents for something that is a disfunction of a larger problem. Cognitive behavioral therapy would work on these types of parents and kids, giving them the tools to change instead of a punishment to a child who does not deserve to be punished.