According to the Cleveland Plane Dealer, social services of Cleveland took the child from the family due of growing problems with obesity. According to social workers of Cleveland, the boy's parents are guilty in obesity, because the boy of eight years old already weighs nearly 80 kg, which can be a very dangerous for the children of this age and is characterized by risk of hypertensive disease and diabetes. Before social workers received a court order for the right to take the child from the family, they about one year watching the actions of the child's mother and repeatedly documented cases, where she is neglected by doctors. This case was the first in Cleveland, when the child was taken away from parents, due to problems with obesity and is certainly will not the last case, since about 17 percent of children and adolescents in the United States suffer from obesity.