Harvard Prof: State Should Grab Obese Kids from Parents

Dan Harris
ABC News
July 14, 2011

Harvard University child obesity expert Dr. David Ludwig’s recent claim that some parents should lose custody of their severely obese children has sparked outrage among families and professionals across the country.

The national outcry led one family to share how their personal experience with the matter, they argue, damaged their lives.

Ludwig, an obesity expert at Children’s Hospital Boston and associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, shared his divisive idea in an opinion piece that ran in the Journal of the American Medical Association Wednesday: that state intervention can serve in the best interest of extremely obese children, of which there’re about 2 million across the United States.

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This article was posted: Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 6:31 am

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