'Fat family' Dundee

The UN gave children rights - it's time we consulted them

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Ask children instead of ignoring their feelings, says report.
20 November 2009 - From the Guardian Society Website.

Children playing outdoors in autumn 
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Newborn girl will return to parents of ‘obese family’ after ruling

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TA couple whose overweight children were taken into care by social workers are to be reunited with their newborn baby this week.

The girl, who was judged to be at risk because of the family’s obesity and other aspects of their lifestyle, will be allowed home as soon as she is well enough to leave hospital, which officials said was likely to be this weekend.

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Children removed from 'fat family'

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Social workers who removed two children from an overweight family acted yesterday to ensure that all their remaining children, including a newborn baby, are taken into care.

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‘Fat’ family’s legal fight to get children out of care

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The Dundee family's lawyers will challenge the decision before a sheriff next week

The pregnant mother of two children, aged 3 and 4, taken into care because they were judged to be overweight spoke yesterday of her anguish at the decision.

“I miss my children. I miss holding them and cuddling and telling them I love them,” she said. “When I have been allowed to see them, they say, ‘Can we come home with you Mummy, can we come home with you?’.

“And I have to cuddle them and say, ‘You can’t come home with Mummy now. But soon, darlings, we’ll get you home soon’. I just have to be strong for them, to help them. But the truth is, I don’t know when I will get them home. Or if.”

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