Hatfield
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I went off about the weights in the last thread but I'll reiterate bc of the posts above me: size & weight are all relative, esp when it comes to frame size. I'm NOT saying the oldest girl wasn't starved. I'm saying we don't have all of the information. How tall is she? How large is her frame? What is her set point? Was she particularly dehydrated the day she was weighed? Had she voided prior? Was she wearing clothes? How's her fat vs muscle vs bone ratio? Sorry, just soooo many factors play into this. The one simple number "82 lbs" does not tell us the whole story. What if she's like 5'1"?
Similarly, I'm NOT saying the youngest kids weren't starved, but some children are very small/lithe, very petite, just don't start putting on weight until they get older. My younger sis was tiiiiiny, bone-thin until she was like 18 .. she was a very late bloomer. I was my full adult size (& my highest weight ever, incidentally) when I was 13. Random!
I'm 5'9" & if I weighed 82 I'd be dead (I'd probably be dead, or at least look dead, at anything under 110) but two ppl have chimed in saying they're my same height & have recorded weights in the 90s & low 100s, and I believe them. #jussayin .. haha.
JMO
You mentioned in a recent post that
"....just trying to predict how the defense might scrape together a case."
But yet you didnt say that at all in the above post. And since we are a victim friendly place its no wonder when people read posts like that, it comes across as being sympathetic to the abusers and trying to find ways to justify what the parents did.
I actually enjoy discussing defense strategies and it may help to preface the intentions of a post like above if that is the real reason for it.
People can post however they want and just trying to help explain why some of the reactions are what they are.