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Guest post from ‘Sensibly Ginger’
The Independent, on Thursday 26th Feb said:

“Health officials have been forced to withdraw 21,000 doses of the meningitis C vaccine from GP clinics around the UK after it emerged that some doses may have been contaminated with a blood-poisoning bacterium.
“More than 60,000 doses of the vaccine, which is offered to all four-month-old babies, could be contaminated with the hospital-acquired infection – the Staphylococcus aureus bacterium – and a third of these had already been sent to vaccination clinics before officials became aware of the problem.
“Officials within the Department of Health and the vaccine’s manufacturers are believed to have known of the problem since Tuesday but only issued an emergency recall last night after being contacted about the potential contamination by The Independent. “

Maybe that’s because ALL of the vaccines in the UK were safe, as the Independent evidently knew:

“In a statement, the Department of Health denied that any contaminated samples had entered the UK market. Two batches have been identified and are being recalled as a purely precautionary measure. These two batches passed all routine quality testing, including a sterility test.”

What has happened, as the BBC reported, is:

“The recalled batches of the Menjugate Kit, which were manufactured in Italy, had passed safety checks before leaving the factory to be transported by road to the UK.
“But a small number of samples were sent overseas by aeroplane to test whether the sample would remain secure under different air pressures.
“At the destination, these were found to be contaminated with staphylococcus aureus bacteria, but never entered the supply chain.”

So really, what it should have said is:

Novartis bend over backwards to make sure your kids are safe, and don’t die from meningitis. 

But that wouldn’t sell adverts, if all they did was inform you of the important news you need to know.

The media have fueled the fire, yet again, and are helping the public misunderstanding of science. Vaccines are safe, they really, really are. Children are now dying because parents aren’t getting their children vaccinated.

Raising worries over safe vaccines is not only a fucking stupid thing to do, it is a public health risk.

Heroin-addict single mum, on the decision to place her children in the care of a gay couple in a stable home:

“I did not under any circumstances want my children to be placed with gay men. I wanted them to have a mum and a dad.”

And in the same breath:

“I have nothing against gay people. I’ve got gay friends…”

Save it, sister. You damn near destroyed the lives of those children. You can’t even take care of your own body. YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS.

PS: there are some more cracking quotes in the article!

So, this fuckwit wants to give birth to a two-headed child.

Why? Because this young couple has been trying for children for some time yet so far she’s never had the fortune to become pregnant, until last month that is.

Some people might look at me and say, ‘You’re going to give birth to a freak’ — but I don’t care because I feel blessed.

Woah, hold the press there. What was that? Let’s zoom in:

I don’t care

Did you see it? Wait a sec, I’ll just pull it into sharp focus for you:

I DON’T CARE

You see, those pesky doctors with their silly little things like “medical degrees” have told the couple that the child is extremely unlikely to survive much past the birth. And even if it does, it’s extremely unlikely to survive an operation. So it will either suffer in pain and die, or it’ll suffer in pain, go through a lengthy and extremely traumatic operation, and die anyway.

Those silly people with their medical certificates have told them that they can still do the humane thing and terminate, but they declined.

Here are a couple of questions for you:

Why give birth to a child whose entire life experience will be nothing but pain and suffering, if it survives at all?

And if it does survive to grow up, what about the immense emotional trauma of finding out that you were once the kid with two heads?

What in the name of shuddering fuck is wrong with these people?

“To me, my twins are a gift from God and we’re determined to give them a chance of life.”

Oh yeah, that’s right. Religion.

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Many thanks to Colonel Santiago for being my unwilling, er, unwitting muse and for speaking lots of sense.

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EDIT: Here’s a picture of the twins couple:

EDIT 2: Alright. You twisted my arm. Compare and contrast, using my shite editing skillz:

Now please go away.

In another article we raised the concept of childhood obesity being a form of child abuse and that seemed to get some of our readers a little confused so here’s the whole thing in a little more detail.

In the UK we have a concept called ‘parental responsibility’. The name of the concept causes quite a bit of confusion in itself because many groups seem to see parental responsibility as ‘parental rights’ because many of the visitation rights that a father may have are tied to or determined by the level of parental responsibility. Regardless of how it is perceived, being a parent is a responsibility and probably the greatest that many of us will every experience, it is our role to protect the child, to educate it and to ensure it is brought up to meet the fullness of its potential.

Many forms of child abuse have hit the headlines from the tragic example of Baby P, one of many who have slipped through the system and been physically abused to the myriads of children who are sexually abused. Children who are emotionally abused are often given less air time because it is harder to sensationalise the act of destroying a child’s self esteem or dashing their hopes. Recently the government, schools and many other factors have been blamed for a perceived rise in obesity but let’s look first at the numbers behind that rise.

The graph above has the proportion of kids who are overweight between 1995 and 2002. The period is too short to get a definite trend but the proportions have risen by 3-4% over seven years and that is considerable.

The rise in the proportion of kids who are medically obese follows a similar pattern and this seems to indicate a rise in obesity which follows the increase in the proportion of overweight kids.

It’s worth noting at this point that these stats are all percentages rather than absolute numbers. It would be normal to expect the absolute numbers of overweight kids to increase over time as it would also be normal for the number of underweight or average weight kids to increase as the total number of kids increases but changes in the percentages show a different make up for that increasing population, essentially the population of fat kids is growing faster than the population of average or underweight kids.

So what about the health problems? Childhood obesity is not just a problem for the kids, it’s a problem when they become adults and likely also a problem for their own kids (if they live long enough to breed). Heart disease is already the number one killer in the UK and the effect that an aging obese population will have on the already stretched NHS is unthinkable.

The blame currently rests in a number of places: TV, sugary soft drinks, school dinners, lack of sports in schools and genes have all been blamed for the obesity problem. The chief executive of McDonalds UK, Steve Easterbrook, has blamed video games while a recent survey of parents suggested that 10% of them believed that fast food companies were to blame. Really, though, the blame can only rest at the feet of one group of people: the parents.

Raising a kid is hard. They don’t want to eat their greens and they want to eat what all the other kids are eating. They don’t want to play outside or get exercise because they would rather be playing on the xbox, that’s why we don’t let young kids go out into the world to live on their own because they are just kids and need their parents to make some choices for them. Sometimes as a parent it’s necessary to say no to a child when they want more chips or insist that they eat their greens before they get desert. Denying a child something they want is not abuse if it is in their long term best interest and encouraging them to take part in some form of active sport is possible no matter what the ability of the child.

Of course it’s all to tempting when you have had a hard day to just give them a pizza or not ensure that they have had some fruit or vegetables. It’s easier to shell out a few quid for school dinners because if you make a pack lunch you aren’t there to make sure they eat it. Food from the frozen aisle in the supermarket is often cheaper and quicker to microwave than vegetables which have to be peeled and prepared.

But who said being a good parent is easy? Parenting is hard work and doing it right is even harder, that’s something that’s not taught in schools or by parents and that’s probably one of the reasons why we have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country. If you can’t deny a child sweets and get it to enjoy (or at least tollerate) vegetables then you need to think about if you should be a parent at all. If you haven’t got the dedication to go out in the rain and play footie after a 12 hour shift then it could be that parenting is not for you. If you can’t get your kids to eat their 5 a day then maybe you should use a condom, take a pill or just keep your pants on because you are only destined to kill the child you bring into the world.