Is that Soilent Green?

Causing social workers most concern is the weight of the 12-year-old child, who is more than 16 stone, and another three-year-old child who weighs four stone.

16 stone = 224 pounds.

Jebus. How do you let your kid get that fat? I wouldn't even give them 3 months to clean up their act.

These people need to pick up the meth and make with the snorting

MrSinister: Is that Soilent Green?

Soylent Green. Don't be fooled by those cheap knockoffs.

I'm disappointed... nobody has posted the cliche'd fat asian McDonald's kid or the repeating video of the spastic fat kid.

tsk-tsk.

since when do fatties have rights?

By the time that 225+ pound 12 year old turns 16, they won't be able to walk or breath without assistance.

/It's just puppy fat

About the only people who could be worse than these parents are bureaucrats.

We take kids away for child abuse, this is child abuse.

/does not see the problem

Shouldn't they flense them for fuel ?

I don't see a problem with this.

I also believe that obese people shouldn't be served anything more than a salad with no dressing at restaurants.

TFA: the weight of the 12-year-old child, who is more than 16 stone

1 Stone = 14 Pounds.
16 Stone = 224 Pounds.

TFA: However, the parents are adamant that their children are only displaying puppy fat and believe it will be shed as they grow older.

Are you farking kidding me?
You've got a more than 224lb 12 year old! That's not "puppy fat" that's "whale fat" as in your child is a whale.
I'm 27 years old, almost 6 feet tall and I don't even weigh that much. And the kicker? I consider myself a fatty! If I got it down to 175 I'd be good.... 224? I'd just stop eating at that point...

fezziwig: Jebus. How do you let your kid get that fat? I wouldn't even give them 3 months to clean up their act.

Id just like to point out that 3 months is definitely not enough time to get the said child down to a normal weight

I can't get a good target on England. On one hand, they're sissies when it comes to many of the policies we read about here on Fark, but on the other hand, they do this, which shows some stones. (ha!)

I'm starting to think the people who run England are bi-polar.

Fat Flabby Annie unavailable for comment.

It's people like this that makes me feel better about how I was when I was a kid.

/was never 16 stone when I was 12
//maybe 10 stone
///what the hell kinda measurement is, "Stone" anyway?

Naaaaannny
Naaanny
The son eats East
The son eats West
The gummint raises
your son best
Says you Naaaanny

When I was in junior high there was a 12-year-old girl who was over 300 lbs.

Scary as hell.

I'm with Big Brother on this one. The state must step in.

Paratech: It's people like this that makes me feel better about how I was when I was a kid.

/was never 16 stone when I was 12
//maybe 10 stone
///what the hell kinda measurement is, "Stone" anyway?

Where the kid weighs more than "very small rocks".

swfan80: fezziwig: Jebus. How do you let your kid get that fat? I wouldn't even give them 3 months to clean up their act.

Id just like to point out that 3 months is definitely not enough time to get the said child down to a normal weight

No, but it is time enough to see if he is losing weight or not.
I would think they would evaluate progress at that time.

and the article agrees:

They say they were warned that all six children could be taken into care unless significant improvements are seen by June.

swfan80: Id just like to point out that 3 months is definitely not enough time to get the said child down to a normal weight

Amputation? Or is that cheating?

swfan80
Id just like to point out that 3 months is definitely not enough time to get the said child down to a normal weight

Lesse... needs to lose say 80lbs. 224-80=144, depending on height, not too bad.
3 months.. lets say 30 days each. 90 days.
80 in 90 = .9lbs a day..

Yeah that'd be rough.
But they didn't say the parents had to get him down to normal, just get it under control. I'm sure if he lost 2 stone or so in the three months and looked to be on the right path they'd be good with that.

Squidgilum: When I was in junior high there was a 12-year-old girl who was over 300 lbs.

Scary as hell.

I'm with Big Brother on this one. The state must step in.

Before the kid steps on the state.

Danger Avoid Death: Where the kid weighs more than "very small rocks".

Was that before or after being turned into a newt?

A grizzly bear will kill any thing which threatens her cubs.

Shame humans don't display a similar level of protective nature.

Honestly, if someone came to kidnap my kids, it wouldn't matter if they were some crazy old perv, or someone claiming to be "with the state." I would protect them with my life. :/

Well most of Americas 12 yr olds don't weigh 16 stone, but most of our 16 yr olds are quite stoned.

/stones
//seriously since rocks come in randome weights, who the hell decided on a standard "Stone" measurement?

nashBridges: fezziwig: I wouldn't even give them 3 months to clean up their act.

Beyond liposuction, how are you going to drop weight to agreeable levels in three months?

What's more worrying is this:

Social workers have allegedly even labelled the 21-month-old child, who weighs 26 lbs, overweight.

That's heavy for two years, but it's not that heavy. I think the first growth spurt happens from 3-6 years or so, so that kid might be fine.

RTFA, they are checking progress then not expecting him to be down to normal weight.

"Mmmnmph, *gulp*, my kid isn't obese he's on a diet! Just because he eats four double cheeseburgers, two hot and spicy mcchickens, 8 chicken nuggets and an apple pie in one sitting doesn't mean I didn't get him a supersize diet coke. See it says 'diet' right on the label."

/DNRTFA
//enabling your kid to get to 224 pounds at 12yo IS abuse.

Paratech: Danger Avoid Death: Where the kid weighs more than "very small rocks".

Was that before or after being turned into a newt?

He got better.

16 stone at TWELVE? That kid weighs more than I do and I know I'm overweight.

GO BE FAT SOMEWHERE ELSE

Had to get that one out of the way.

nightfire: A grizzly bear will kill any thing which threatens her cubs.

Shame humans don't display a similar level of protective nature.

Honestly, if someone came to kidnap my kids, it wouldn't matter if they were some crazy old perv, or someone claiming to be "with the state." I would protect them with my life. :/ feed them to death


/ftfy

I think a better answer would be to have weekly weigh-ins for the little oven-roasters.

Every week that goes by where the obese kid doesn't lose weight is a week that the parents get an extra set of 20 pound weights locked onto their chests.

I can guarantee you that, once the parents have 40 pounds of extra weight strapped around their necks, they'll start making their little snowflake eat veggies and lean meats and exercise regularly.

The parents are the ones at fault. Punish them until they make the changes for their kid.

nightfire: A grizzly bear will kill any thing which threatens her cubs.

Shame humans don't display a similar level of protective nature.

Honestly, if someone came to kidnap my kids, it wouldn't matter if they were some crazy old perv, or someone claiming to be "with the state." I would protect them with my life. :/

While shoveling crap food down their stomachs, letting their fat ass sit around playing video games, and making them drink honey with their dinner, right?

Way to condone the actions of lazy ass parents who lack the necessary parenting skills to prepare their child for life. Bravo. Really, bravo. Perhaps we'll be lucky enough that your kids will suffer from a heart attack at a ripe young age before they can collect money from the government for being too fat too work, which we have you to thank for.

How did Wonka get that blueberry chick back down to average size again? They might want to try that on this family.

/letting a child's weight get that out of control is abuse
//letting all six of them get that bad? That's torture

nightfire: A grizzly bear will kill any thing which threatens her cubs.

Shame humans don't display a similar level of protective nature.

Honestly, if someone came to kidnap my kids, it wouldn't matter if they were some crazy old perv, or someone claiming to be "with the state." I would protect them with my life. :/

Try to not abuse your children and this will not happen. Do you think we should let child abuse continue?

Ok, UK farkers, WTF is up with this whole stone shiat anyways? The whole damn world is on the math of the future, aka metric, the US is on the math of "we leart dis growin up so stfu you godless heathen!" aka imperial, and the UK is still using the a weigh the stone as a measure of weight.

A stone... REALLY? Aren't you farkers supposed to be the cultured and civilized anglo speakers? How about you drop the 9th century weighting system already.

And what the fark happened to newspaper in fish and chips anyways? Goddamn heathens.

thread useless without pics of fatties and that one go be fat somewhere else pic

should have refreshed...

So feeding your kids too much is now abuse?

wow.

Ok, I get it now, this is in the UK. This kinda shiat won't fly in 'Merica, we will put down that big mac when you pry it from our cold, dead, flabby fingers.

The parents obviously cannot raise healthy children. That much overweight is not "puppy fat." Stupid parents. They're slowly killing their own children. I agree that social services should be brought in on this.

/the a weigh = a unit called. Cut n paste is all tricky like tonight.

log_jammin: So feeding your kids too much is now abuse?

wow.

Feeding them until they are morbidly obese sure as hell is. Do you think you have some right to make your kids this sick?

There's always the lione between the State being a 'Nanny' and being a 'Watchdog'.

In this case I'm gonna go with Watchdog.

log_jammin: So feeding your kids too much is now abuse?

wow.

Having your kid at the age of 12 weigh more than me when I was out of shape (5"11, damn near 200lbs), is child abuse. Neglect is just as bad, IMO. They might as well be funneling alcohol down their kids' throats, because that would be healthier for them.