Dad is great! Gives us the chocolate cake!

Impasse: Dad is great! Gives us the chocolate cake!

Eggs, milk, flour. Nutrition!

In cases like this, I'm wondering if perhaps 'nanny state' really goes far enough. Perhaps we should start referring to 'helicopter government,' by analogy to helicopter parenting.

Interesting case. The mother is a coont for refusing to feed her kid, state is clearly wrong by taking the kid away...

Cake or death?

Poor parents. If the kid was morbidly obese, they would be catching hell for feeding him junk food. They do the right thing and they still get in trouble.

van1ty: Interesting case. The mother is a coont for refusing to feed her kid, state is clearly wrong by taking the kid away...

The mother never refused to feed her kid. You are a dumbass.

That is one freaky-looking kid.

Maybe it was the right thing to do if they were trying to force the kid to eat English food...

The real problem is idiots like that mother who can't see that different circumstances call for different actions. If the baby is truly starving himself, then feed him something fatty to bulk him up. She sounds like an idiot.

Millennium: In cases like this, I'm wondering if perhaps 'nanny state' really goes far enough. Perhaps we should start referring to 'helicopter government,' by analogy to helicopter parenting.

I think 'fascists' sums it up nicely.

MyRandomName: van1ty: Interesting case. The mother is a coont for refusing to feed her kid, state is clearly wrong by taking the kid away...

The mother never refused to feed her kid. You are a dumbass.

She is denying chocolate and cakes... everything else is cardboard and packing peanuts.

Sticky Hands: MyRandomName: van1ty: Interesting case. The mother is a coont for refusing to feed her kid, state is clearly wrong by taking the kid away...

The mother never refused to feed her kid. You are a dumbass.

She is denying chocolate and cakes... everything else is cardboard and packing peanuts.

You sound fat.

simpsonfan: If someone had tried to take my kids away, they would have had to call the coroner, because somebody would be getting shot.

Wait. Who would you shoot? The people trying to take your kids away? How would they be able to call the coroner? Would you shoot your kids?

Just FYI:

I like my chocolate with my cake. Now accepting chocolate and/or cake.

/Eric Forman, call your office

Am I to understand that the mother didn't want to give her child junk food and cake, possibly because she didn't want them to become fussy eaters, who only want McDonalds? If she didn't want to give the kid junk food, any high calorie and fat item would suffice. Something like cream-based pastas, heavily buttered popcorn, etc. would have worked in that situation as well.

I guess what I'm asking is if she didn't want to spoil him with bad food, or if she legitimately thinks that she knows better than her family practitioner?

/Umm, popcorn

Don't they make prescription weight-gain shakes? With protein and all that good stuff? Why not give the kid some of that? Chocolate cake seems like a weird thing for a doctor to recommend.

WTF Indeed: Why doesn't the Sun just toss in the towel and print 20 pages of Page 3 material.

I don't see how that's going to help us gain weight.

Metro has a much better picture. He looks less like a guy who drinks the dole and she kinda reminds me of a chubby Ellen Page



/kid still looks high

If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding cakes and chocolate!

/oblig?

The cake is a lie.

It's The Sun. And they include only the parents' story. So it must be 100% true.

Yes, I'm sure the doctors said "only feed you child junk food. Absolutely nothing else will do. If you give him something halfway healthy like a potato it's child services for him!"

It couldn't be this hysterical mother overreacted when she was told she was starving her child and now she's created a bogus story to make up for her stupidity. I'm also glad the Sun actually interviewed the doctors involved to get both sides of the story.

Healthy eater Lisa, 28, and her HGV driver husband Paul, 48, battled through the courts for four months before they got their son back.

I wonder if this is what the baby looked like when they got him back 4 months later? Nannystate Mission Accomplished!

You U.K. government knows what's best for you and your children :)

odinsposse: Yes, I'm sure the doctors said "only feed you child junk food. Absolutely nothing else will do. If you give him something halfway healthy like a potato it's child services for him!"

It couldn't be this hysterical mother overreacted when she was told she was starving her child and now she's created a bogus story to make up for her stupidity. I'm also glad the Sun actually interviewed the doctors involved to get both sides of the story.

Well if the UK is anything like america, the doctors wouldn't be legally able to discuss it anyway. I support your theory though.

The_Six_Fingered_Man: van1ty: Interesting case. The mother is a coont for refusing to feed her kid, state is clearly wrong by taking the kid away...

She's a coont cause she won't hop the 2 year old up on chocolates and cake? Really?

My two year old gets maybe one small fun size piece of chocolate per month.

no, she's a c*nt because her child was undernourished enough to attract the attention of authorities. they told her to supplement the diet with extra treats so that her child could gain some weight quickly, thus avoiding further complications.

/also just because your an anal retentive grinch when it comes to candy doesn't make you a horrible parent--i wouldn't wanna be your kid, though.

"Healthy eater Lisa"

AKA "Fat mom Lisa"

What the hell is a "mum"?

And somewhere, Meme Roth is wringing her bony hands in anger...

Gahd, I hate her.

The mom should've fed the kid chocolate or MEAT.
The CFS (or whatever) probably shouldn't have taken him away.

My wife woke me up 4:00 in the morning. She said, "I want you to go downstairs and cook breakfast for the children."

And I looked at the clock and I said, "Dear, it's 6:00 in the morning."

She said, "Exactly. Go down and cook for the children. They have to go to school."

I said, "Yes, but to eat at 6:00, isn't that bad for your stomach? I mean, they just ate twelve hours ago."

My wife said, "Bill, get out of that bed and go downstairs and cook breakfast for your children!!"

I said, "Well, I don't know what they want to eat."

She said, "It's down there! Now you get out of the bed!"

Needless to say, I was angry. And I went downstairs without putting on my robe. Standing there in my pajamas, and I'm talking to myself. I said, "Get these, go down and cook breakfast, but it's six o'clock in the morning," and I slam the pans down. Blam! On the stove. I slam them down and go to the refrigerator and look around and I get to the damn bacon and the sausage, cooking breakfast, six o'blam in the morning, and I grab the-

you have to be careful with eggs...

"God! I have to cook breakfast! Boom!!"

I turn around. The first one down was the four-year-old. The child looked lovely. Cute little face, clean. Hair in little braids, little things, you know.

"Good morn', Daddy."

And I said, "What do you want for breakfast!?"

The four-year-old has the ability to see through and find the wrong thing. The child saw through my body what was behind me. She saw the chocolate cake. She said, "Can I have the chocolate cake?"

And I said, "Chocolate cake, where?"

She said, "Chocolate cake behind you."

And I looked... and there was chocolate cake! The child wanted chocolate cake for breakfast! How ridiculous! And I said...

and someone in my brain looked under chocolate cake and saw the ingredients: eggs! Eggs are in chocolate cake! And milk! Oh goody! And wheat! That's nutrition!

"What do you want?"

"Can I have some chocolate cake?"

"Chocolate cake coming up!"

Sliced it for her and served it. "Now, you need something to drink with the chocolate cake, something breakfast... grapefruit juice!"

[Woman in audience] No-o-o! [Cosby] This is not your child!

So I give the child a glass of grapefruit juice and chocolate cake --- nutrition. Eggs, milk, and wheat in the chocolate cake. And... I didn't have to cook.

And the other four came downstairs. And when they came downstairs... Those of you who have children, you've seen them come downstairs for school. And they got to the kitchen. They saw the four-year-old eating chocolate cake.

And they said, "Dad! Where did she get the chocolate cake?" And they went to the child and said, "How did you get chocolate cake?"

She said, "Dad give me chocolate cake!"

And they looked at me and said, "Father... could we have chocolate cake?"

And their father said, "Chocolate cake coming up!!" Four slices! And grapefruit juice!

And five children sat at breakfast and the morning music was playing and they were eating chocolate cake and singing songs to me: "Dad is great! Give us the chocolate cake!" And we had a ball

Until...

She came down like this. And when she saw what the children were eating... I've always heard about people having a conniption, but I've never seen one. You don't want to see 'em!

My wife's face... split! The skin and hair split and came off of her face so that there was nothing except the skull! And orange light came out of her hair and it lit all around! And fire shot from her eye sockets and began to burn my stomach! And she said, "Where did they get chocolate cake from?!?"

And I said, "They asked for it!!"

And the children, who had been singing praises to me, lied on me, and said, "Uh-uhh!! We asked for eggs and milk, and Dad made us eat this!!!"

And my wife sent me to my room. Which is where I wanted to go in the first place.

She supposed to be a healthy eater? I call BS. She just doesn't want to share her stash with the baby.

Sticky Hands: MyRandomName: van1ty: Interesting case. The mother is a coont for refusing to feed her kid, state is clearly wrong by taking the kid away...

The mother never refused to feed her kid. You are a dumbass.

She is denying chocolate and cakes... everything else is cardboard and packing peanutsrotten apple cores and old chinese newspapers.

FTFY, also, this story sounds kinda "made-up."

The_Six_Fingered_Man

My two year old gets maybe one small fun size piece of chocolate per month.


Fun is not a size!

Parents who refuse their kids any junk cause just as many issues as parents who over do the junk. You don't want to develop food obsessions and gorging and other guilts and eating disorders.

FTFA:

Lisa said she was warned her parental rights could be removed if she took legal action.

Wow, that article is written horrendously and filled with so much bias that I doubt everything it says.

People here argue with each other based on such twisted information?

One-sided stories are so much more interesting than the whole picture...

Geez, that is one ugly arse kid. Poor guy.