Globe&Mail story on obese children and removal from home

I feel just horrible for all the poor kids who've been mentioned in the posts above.
It is a terrible world we humans have made, and i just wi**** wasn't in our nature to be cruel and malicious to those who cannot defend themselves.

But I'd like to go back to the initial articles -
the point in the Globe and Mail artilce was that many parents are too stressed, too frazzled and too uneducated to realize that they are doing such irreparable harm to their children by feeding them what they want.

That was not the case in my upbringing and I still ended up obese.
The struggle I have gone through for 50 years has been monumental, and it terrifies me to think of all the obese kids you see these days who are going to be sentenced to medical procedures and dramas for their short lives, because their parents DON"T KNOW the harm they're doing.

Your points about CAS are well-taken, but isn't there a way to educate parents (eg. TV commercials, sessions with their family physicians etc.) without involving protective services?

I believe there are ways, yes.  BUT........ in some cases (more than one might think), the learning needs to be mandated and monitored.  Should this be the job of child protective services?  In some very severe cases, yes.  Hence my previous post about partnerships and the creation of programs to address this issue.