Fat Free Fitness Health and Fitness today - Thursday 3rd December 2009
Posted: 03/12/2009 at 05:47pm by Rich Leigh, founder of Fat Free Fitness
Doing the rounds today is a story about a couple from Bolsover near Chesterfield who had their son taken into foster care in the UK because (and this is the headline the tabloids are running with) they ‘refused to feed him junk food’.
Paul and Lisa Hessey’s ‘fussy eating’ child, Zak, was taken away from them for four months whilst his new foster family, with help from the hospital attempted to improve his weight, after the couple had refused to feed him crisps, chocolate and biscuits to fatten him up.
Whilst the story is a great ‘come jump on this bandwagon’ tabloid media story aimed at attacking the authorities, it really is a ‘lose-lose’ situation either way for Social Services.
If Chesterfield Hospital and social services hadn’t intervened in some way and two-year old Zak had become seriously ill as a result of his fussy-eating, the parents may have lost much more than just four months with him in that he may have died, and the authorities would have been hung out to dry in the press.
Zak gained just 9oz in foster care, so barely half a pound in four months, showing that there are obviously other factors other than being with his parents to be looked at. At 20 months old, Zak weighed 1 st 3lbs, half a stone below the average weight according to baby age-weight averages.
It is difficult to judge what you’d do in a similar position, so I will refrain from judging the parents’ effort themselves, but definitely disagree with their insistence on taking it to press.
A spokesman for Chesterfield Royal Hospital summarised the story well with the following statement: 'While we understand Mr and Mrs Hessey's distress, Zak's welfare was paramount and we believe we acted in his best interest.'
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