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dr. ludwig admits foster care is not a perfect option but he says one option we certainly do not have isn. dan harris, abc news, new york. >>> researchers say they've reached a milestone in the battle against aids in africa. truvada, a drug already shown to help gay men also works for heterosexual men and women. the hiv toll in africa is staggering. more than 6 million people are already taking aids drugs, but 9 million more are on the waiting list. >>> a legal loophole that is allowing an admitted child molester to watch child porn in jail has washington state authorities outraged. because weldon gilbert is acting as his own lawyer he is entitled to review the evidence, and that evidence includes more than 100 videos seized from his home showing gilbert's own acts of abuse. >>> a man of accused of stalking halle berry remains in jail on $150,000 bail. richard franco pleaded not guilty to stalking but he was ordeded to stay at least 500 yards away from the oscar-winning star. franco was arrested on monday after allegedly showing up at her home three days in a row. in one instance berry s
dr. ludwig admits foster care is not a perfect option but he says one option we certainly do not have isn. dan harris, abc news, new york. >>> researchers say they've reached a milestone in the battle against aids in africa. truvada, a drug already shown to help gay men also works for heterosexual men and women. the hiv toll in africa is staggering. more than 6 million people are already taking aids drugs, but 9 million more are on the waiting list. >>> a legal loophole that...
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dr. ludwig proposes. that before removing an obese child from his or her home, state officials would provide the parents wi s with counselin education. but is there any way to guarantee that state government officials will actually take the intermediate steps before they take that big step of removing a child from the home? >> the state has no incentive to take a child away from their parents unnecessarily. >> reporter: but he cannot guarantee they won't. nor can he guarantee a child sent into foster care will actually improve. when anna marie regino was taken from her parents in albuquerque, new mexico, she didn't improve at all. she was later returned to her parents and diagnosed with a genetic predisposition. >> it did more damage to my daughter. if they really did care about that child, they would take more effort to stay with the family. >> reporter: dr. ludwig admits foster care is not a perfect option. but he says one option we certainly do not have is inaction. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> s
dr. ludwig proposes. that before removing an obese child from his or her home, state officials would provide the parents wi s with counselin education. but is there any way to guarantee that state government officials will actually take the intermediate steps before they take that big step of removing a child from the home? >> the state has no incentive to take a child away from their parents unnecessarily. >> reporter: but he cannot guarantee they won't. nor can he guarantee a...
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dr. robi ludwig is here to analyze some of her behavior.ey anthony as the prosecution delivers its closing arguments. >> counsel went to great lengths to connect as we already had, the duct tape in this case to the anthony home. on that, we agree. that duct tape on caylee anthony's face, came from the anthony home. getting past the fact that there is just no conceivable reason why anybody would put duct tape on the face of a dead child. i said it before, people don't make accidents look like murder. that's absurd. >> judge jeanine: all right, prosecutor linda drain-burdick had harsh words for casey. dr. ludwig, are you there? >> i am here. >> judge jeanine: okay. let me ask you, in response to the prosecution in closing arguments, what do you think the jury is thinking? >> it is so hard to figure out what the jury is thinking, because we done have the benefit of looking at their -- we don't have the benefit of looking at their faces and getting the sense of how they are reacting to the prosecution, defense, casey anthony. it is a little lik
dr. robi ludwig is here to analyze some of her behavior.ey anthony as the prosecution delivers its closing arguments. >> counsel went to great lengths to connect as we already had, the duct tape in this case to the anthony home. on that, we agree. that duct tape on caylee anthony's face, came from the anthony home. getting past the fact that there is just no conceivable reason why anybody would put duct tape on the face of a dead child. i said it before, people don't make accidents look...
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dr. david ludwig says today in a prestigious medical journal in certain carefully selected situations someerica's estimated 2 million extremely obese children should be taken from their parents. we spoke to him via satellite. >> taking a child away from their parents is a drastic action. should only be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life threatening complications, it may not be any great choices. >> reporter: abc news heard from two dozen experts and all but you three disagreed including art kaplan. >> if you were a child who was mored bily obese and there was a risk your life would be shortened. >> i would say can't you help my parents. >> that is exactly what dr. ludwig proposes, before removing an obese child state officials would provide the parents would counseling and education. >> is there any way to guarantee that state government officials will take the intermediated steps before they take the big step of removing a child from the home? >> the state has no incentive to take a child away from their parents unnecessarily. >> but he cannot guarantee th
dr. david ludwig says today in a prestigious medical journal in certain carefully selected situations someerica's estimated 2 million extremely obese children should be taken from their parents. we spoke to him via satellite. >> taking a child away from their parents is a drastic action. should only be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life threatening complications, it may not be any great choices. >> reporter: abc news heard from two dozen experts and...
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dr. ludwig, how do you explain a mother's absence to three 5-year-olds? what to do you say to them? think what you say is first, you want to underscore they are safe. and be honest without giving too much detail. you want to say something like we're looking for your mommy now. we have really good people trying to find her. you are safe. we are here for you. we'll let you know something as soon as . certainly not go into gory details before you have any information. you don't want to scare the kids. >> judge jeanine: let as talk about the fact the police are saying the husband cooperating. it is not like he's trying to make it look like he's helping. what does that tell you about him? >> he's disturbed the fact that he isn't covering up. if he were not involved, wouldn't he be happy police are looking for his wife? wouldn't he be happy there's television attention? not every case gets that kind of attention. clearly, he's adversarial. he's angry. he's annoyed and irritable. and he can even hide that. he's probably in a very depressed, perhaps suicidal state himself. >> judge jeanine:
dr. ludwig, how do you explain a mother's absence to three 5-year-olds? what to do you say to them? think what you say is first, you want to underscore they are safe. and be honest without giving too much detail. you want to say something like we're looking for your mommy now. we have really good people trying to find her. you are safe. we are here for you. we'll let you know something as soon as . certainly not go into gory details before you have any information. you don't want to scare the...
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dr. ludwig says putting children in foster care temporarily could be more ethical than surgery.cting in the children's best interest. >>> you're going to notice a lot of cloud cover out there, right meteorologist christina loren. >> no one says meteorologist like you, laura garcia-cannon. you're exec right. it's so dense in spots it's creating that mist, that foggy drizzle to be more scientific. as you can see right now on the golden gate bridge we are completely socked in. this the one and only bridge socked in at this point. we're going to keep watching all morning like. mike and i will be busy. foggy conditions anticipated for the next few mornings, really thick fog at least through friday. that's because we have another area of low pressure back behind the one that's really kicked in that on-shore flow. this guy is now going to perpetuate what on-shore flow we already have for the next few days. that means much cooler than average weather continues across the bay area. take a look at how much cooler than average we were yesterday. 66 degrees in danville. normally 89. saving
dr. ludwig says putting children in foster care temporarily could be more ethical than surgery.cting in the children's best interest. >>> you're going to notice a lot of cloud cover out there, right meteorologist christina loren. >> no one says meteorologist like you, laura garcia-cannon. you're exec right. it's so dense in spots it's creating that mist, that foggy drizzle to be more scientific. as you can see right now on the golden gate bridge we are completely socked in. this...
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dr. ludwig suggests putting extremly obese kids in foster care.se in the body mass index in 99th percentile. an 8-year-old, 50 inches tall who weighs 100 pounds. this pediatrician says it is an attempt to help that comes too late. >> by the time that we are thinking of taking them out of out of hot we missed the boat. when their body mass starts to increase we need to intervene then. it is a sad day when we have to intervene when their body max index is at 99th percentile. >> reporter: this clinical director helps place kids in foster homes. he says removing an obese child from their home could do more harm than good. >> the incidence of child removals, itself, is traumatic. it is -- it does set back treatment. the child has to deal with being -- being torn away from their family. and anxiety, depression. >> but he admits in rare cases, moving in with a foster family might help an obese child. but some question whether putting an extremely obese child into temporary foster care will give them the tools to succeed when he returns home. >> without h
dr. ludwig suggests putting extremly obese kids in foster care.se in the body mass index in 99th percentile. an 8-year-old, 50 inches tall who weighs 100 pounds. this pediatrician says it is an attempt to help that comes too late. >> by the time that we are thinking of taking them out of out of hot we missed the boat. when their body mass starts to increase we need to intervene then. it is a sad day when we have to intervene when their body max index is at 99th percentile. >>...
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dr. david ludwig, published his opinion in the "journal of the americanwee medical association" this week. ludwig claims the parent is not to blame for the child's chiob obesity, but rather government intervention can support thert whole family.ve a critics say obesity is not a big enough risk to remove a child from his or her home. childhood obesity has been linked to breathing problems, diabetes and heart disease. seven states already have lawsth that allow the removal of a child due to overnourishment or severe obesity. a wendy, is this an acceptable role for government?ble >> there's a tendency when we see a problem to look at it in isolation. then come up with unreasonable solutions like putting a tax on food. w that would penalize everyone. instead, we need to look at thee whole problem, it's not only lik overeating, it's things like watch can tv, video games, t whether it's a child or adult you're more likely to eat more.e i think we need to deal with it a holistic problenot think that the government is the solution. >> you know, i agree that we need to deal with the holistic probl
dr. david ludwig, published his opinion in the "journal of the americanwee medical association" this week. ludwig claims the parent is not to blame for the child's chiob obesity, but rather government intervention can support thert whole family.ve a critics say obesity is not a big enough risk to remove a child from his or her home. childhood obesity has been linked to breathing problems, diabetes and heart disease. seven states already have lawsth that allow the removal of a child...
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dr. david ludwig who wrote that provocative commentary in a prestitious medical journal. >> it's not rightat he's doing becauseeo get better you need to be with your family and haveveupport instead of having doctor doctors surround you. >> reporter: this family has never recovered from the trauma. what's your response to a case like that? >> well state intervention is no guarantee of a good outcome, but to do nothing is also not an answer. >> reporter: the doctor says children should only be removed in the most extreme cases and that state officials should first offer counseling and education to parents. >> it should o oy be used as a last resort. but when we have a 400-pound child with life-threatening complications, it may not be any great choices. >> reporter: we should say while many oppose his proposal everybody agrees childhood obesity is a massive crisis in the country with 2 million extremely obese children in america right now. that's the estimate. this doctor at the very least got us talking. >> got us talking but do you want 2 million in the foster system that has its own issues
dr. david ludwig who wrote that provocative commentary in a prestitious medical journal. >> it's not rightat he's doing becauseeo get better you need to be with your family and haveveupport instead of having doctor doctors surround you. >> reporter: this family has never recovered from the trauma. what's your response to a case like that? >> well state intervention is no guarantee of a good outcome, but to do nothing is also not an answer. >> reporter: the doctor says...
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dr. nancy, i'll start with you. what's your opinion? >> this was a commentary written by david ludwign children and obesity and he basically raised a question, if parents can be separated from their children for underfeeding them or for abusing them, is there a line in the sand to be drawn when parents are overfeeding their kids and leading to childhood obesity? and in some states, california, iowa, indiana, pennsylvania, new york there is precedent for removing children under the guise of abuse. now, is it a slippery slope? yep. the medical emphasis is all over the cause of that. >> especially putting children into a foster care system which, star, you put out isn't necessarily a better situation for many kids. >> it's probably one of the worst situations. i actually got to do some interesting research on foster care in america, and one of the worst places you want to be able to put kids right now is the foster care system. we really need to ask the government for intervention on the front end of the problem rather than the back end and get rid of the food deserts in open communities
dr. nancy, i'll start with you. what's your opinion? >> this was a commentary written by david ludwign children and obesity and he basically raised a question, if parents can be separated from their children for underfeeding them or for abusing them, is there a line in the sand to be drawn when parents are overfeeding their kids and leading to childhood obesity? and in some states, california, iowa, indiana, pennsylvania, new york there is precedent for removing children under the guise...