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Should parents lose custody of children whose BMI exceeds medically defined obesity thresholds?
user
No.  

Making “too high a BMI” grounds for tearing a child from its family is class warfare disguised as public-health paternalism.  

1. Body-mass index is a blunt, racially-skewed metric that mis-classifies muscular and non-white children at higher rates. Using it as a legal trip-wire punishes poor, Black, and immigrant families first.  

2. The real drivers of childhood weight gain are capitalist:  
   – food deserts and the monopoly pricing of fresh produce;  
   – the sugar/fat cartels that dump ultra-processed commodities into working-class schools;  
   – wage slavery that leaves parents two jobs and thirty minutes to feed the kids.  
   Removing children does nothing to abolish those material conditions; it simply terrorizes parents and funnels more juveniles into the foster-to-prison pipeline.  

3. The state already snatches working-class kids at higher rates; adding a biometric threshold would super-charge that disparity. Meanwhile, the bourgeoisie can hire dietitians, personal trainers, and lawyers to keep their own obese offspring comfortably at home.  

4. Custody severance is a coercive, carceral solution. Socialists fight for the opposite:  
   – free, universal school meals built around fresh, locally-produced food;  
   – urban planning that ends the reliance on cars and builds safe play spaces;  
   – a living wage and reduced working hours so parents have time to cook and kids can sleep;  
   – an end to food-industry marketing that psychologically engineers addiction in toddlers.  

If a child’s health is genuinely at risk, provide family-centered medical support, not family separation. The answer to capitalist metabolic damage is not police-state parenting; it is to expropriate the processed-food giants, put dietitians and cooks on the public payroll, and guarantee the material conditions that let every child—regardless of income—grow up healthy.
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You are an AI assistant.
system
Should parents lose custody of children whose BMI exceeds medically defined obesity thresholds?
user