If i had children, i would never tell anyone i feed them raw meat either. ... It only takes one moronic judge to wreck your life, I'm sure there's a few of them who would have a problem with raw meat, at least in North America. I wouldn't be surprised if one day, we hear of a vengeful ex-wife/husband using raw meat as an argument in a custody battle.
I don't think you lose them in a custody battle, Nation. I do think other negative things may happen. If you want to keep it quiet, that might be a good thing. It's not such a happy thing for people to be judging your childrearing as different. Teachers and doctors (as you need checkups as per the educational system if you send them to school or not) may be fearful you feeding them raw meat, and they can take the children, tube feed them, threaten to do all kinds of things if you don't feed them SAD diet. I don't think that's necessarily the best atmosphere to bring kids through.
I know that raising mine vegan was fine us living in one place, but then moving to a new place, people who didn't know us and had never heard of it decided vegan meant pot smoker or something, and warned their kids, at least one mother did that. That was very surprising to me, as we were very anti-drug of any kind in any way shape and form. Also for school checkups in the new place they started looking for hormonal problems in my son, that they couldn't establish, cause he had never had any problems yet. Even so they continued on to exrays, etc to try to prove there was something wrong, but could find nothing.
Eventually when he was sick, those same doctors, with all their concern for my son's health, would not do anything more than a CBC, and another every few months if I insisted he was sick, while when he was well they kept checking his B12, calcium, protein, iron etc in various forms each. This was because when they asked him about food, he said he was vegan. It did not matter that he was muscular, agile and bright, until he was actually sick, and then they used his body still looking well (no legs falling off etc), that he didn't need the tests I asked for. We had to leave the area and not mention diet to get appropriate medical tests.
Actually, I have already been told by 1 primal dieter that her ex-husband had used the primal diet as an excuse to get child custody of her children. The action failed as the court was unable to prove that the children had suffered from malnutrition or whatever. I think RawZi once mentioned that some other women had also won custody-battles despite being condemned by their ex-husbands for feeding their children raw meats.
Of course, one could claim that since women are usually already more likely to be given child-custody in the family-courts due to inherent bias in the court-system, that a raw foodist husband might be less likely to retain child custody if his ex-wife cited his feeding of raw meats to his children as an excuse. However, the Haigwood family got away with numerous false denunciations by members of the public, so I don't think it's an issue.
I think that sounds like this:
http://www.rawpaleoforum.com/general-discussion/children-and-rpd/msg21697/#msg21697 I think every case is individual, but if you believe raw meat is the right way, then you should probably be able to talk about it reference your kids without problem.
