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Fellow Community Care blogger Simon Stevens wonders - not entirely seriously - if we'll see the day when you could be arrested for eating a Big Mac or ordering fish and chips. I laughed out loud on reading this but then I noticed a Community Care poll from last month (12 May).
It asks whether allowing a child to become obese should be counted as child abuse. Incredibly, amazingly, astonishingly, 81% equated obesity with abuse.

Read the complete post at http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/social-work-blog/2008/06/child-obesity-is-not-child-abu.html


Posted 16 Jun 2008 2:16 PM by The Social Work Blog | Report Abuse
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