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Yikes…

LONDON (Reuters) - British social workers will meet an eight-year-old boy who weighs almost 200 pounds (91 kg) on Tuesday to decide whether he should be taken away from his mother after she refused to stop feeding him junk food.

Conner McCreaddie’s mother said on Monday her 196-pound son refuses to eat fruits and vegetables, but rejected suggestions she put a lock on the fridge.

Connor and mother Nicola McKeown will appear at a child protection conference organized with their local government authority in northeastern England.

Social workers might take the decision to put him into care against the will of his single mother, who suffers from depression. She has appealed to allow her to keep Connor, dismissing allegations that he has been neglected.

“Taking him away from his family when he needs them to help him would be, I think, disastrous for Connor. I think it would make him worse,” she said.

Next thing you know the Brits will be wanting parents to just turn their kids over to the government at infancy for proper raising and indoctrination.

I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m more than a little tired of these social workers and nanny-staters trying to save the world and save us from ourselves.  I’m a firm believer in evolution.  I don’t think we should be allowed to harm one another, but if some moron wants to harm himself by eating too much or smoking or using drugs I say let them.  And if some mom doesn’t have enough control over her kid to keep him out of the fridge, so be it. 

It’s survival of the fittest, and our species isn’t going to evolve properly if we protect these people from themselves.  The only thing we should be worried about is protecting the taxpayers from having to bear the cost of these people’s decisions.  Something that isn’t done, I’d remind you, by expanding the power, size or scope of government agencies.