Parents Of Obese Children May Be Charged With Neglect
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Parents
Of Obese Children May Be Charged
With Neglect
Parents who fail to help an obese
child
eat and exercise properly,
ignoring all
advice and guidance, could be
guilty of
neglect, child health experts say
today.
Dr Russell Viner and colleagues
from the
UCL Institute of Child Health in
London
say that the weight of a child by
itself
is not a reason for child
protection staff
to get involved. But in an article
on what
they accept is a potentially
contentious
issue, published online today by
the
British Medical Journal, they
suggest that
it may be appropriate to consider
the
child protection register if the
parents
consistently fail to change the
family's
lifestyle and will not engage with
outside
help. "Parental failure to provide
their children with adequate
treatment for
a chronic illness (asthma,
diabetes,
epilepsy, etc) is a well accepted
reason
for a child protection
registration for
neglect," they write. "We
suggest that childhood obesity
becomes a
child protection concern when
parents
behave in a way that actively
promotes
treatment failure in a child who
is at
serious risk from obesity and when
the
parents or carers understand what
is
required, and are helped to engage
with
the treatment programme."
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