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Thu, Jul 14 2011 at 2:30 PM

I am a retired Family Practice physician who worked with Indian Health Services for 5 years, with 2 different tribes. Removing children from their home is AS damaging to them emotionally as their parents lack of appropriate care is, regularly resulting in debilitating emotional illness, as severe as their physical problems. Why can we not learn that, barring everything else, it is LESS expensive to give appropriate support and education to the whole family in the home setting. If six months of intensive help doesn't work, THEN consider removing the child, if the input of the home support givers agrees there is no hope. Golly gee, we'd have a chance to help more than the obese child, at less cost! The Doctors suggestion to remove the children from their home is based in a power model instead of a mutual aid to all model. There are multiple countries in the world that have proved the latter makes for a happier, healthier populace at less cost. Weeza Matthias, MD

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