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Childhood Obesity and Medical Neglect
Posted by Sharon Astyk on November 28, 2011
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In an interesting intersection of my interests in food and foster parenting, there’s an emergent tendency to view extreme childhood obesity as a problem of medical neglect. Medical neglect can be grounds for removing children from their home and placing them in foster care, as seen in this recent case in Ohio: An Ohio third-grader…