Stuart Waiton: Fat family are abuse victims not their well-l

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News title:
Stuart Waiton: Fat family are abuse victims not their well-loved children (click here to read)

Article summary:
MORE than a year ago The Scotsman reported on a story about the 'fat family' of Dundee, a two-parent family with six obese children, who had been instructed by social services to thin their kids down or have them taken away. Now after a reported £114,000 spent supporting the family via the Dundee Family Project two of the children have been taken into foster care and the mother, who is pregnant, may also lose this child, once born...

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Source:
The Scotsman

Date:
19/10/2009 01:00:00

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