Childhood obesity...news station asked if parents should be....?

Question

up for child abuse charges for "making their children obese."

Thoughts?

I personally think it's a farce. Granted there are lousy parents who wouldn't know the first thing about nutrition, but what about all the manufacturers who make garbage, especially for kids...load everything up with sugar and preservatives...some people believe they even PUT stuff in food to make you want more...certainly they load up on the sugar and salt end of things, so why the focus on parents?

The problem is that moms become the culprit...as if moms don't have enough to do with working and running a household too. Maybe if the government made it so moms could stay home and look after their kids and had some support the world would function as it should huh?

Answer 1

Wow, that's a really tough question.
The sniper was fed nothing but crackers and I'd consider him brainwashed, so I guess to some extent parents and guardians should be responsible for getting healthy food into their charges.

I was a pretty chubby little girl, though, and can't blame my mom at all. She would but me a troll doll every week that I lost weight - if that isn't incentive I don't know what is!

Answer 2

It isn't so much about the nutrition as the concept that there ought to be a parent in the house. If you can't control your kid any better than that, then you're not acting as a parent. It may have gone to an extreme, but if "it takes a village" then the village must at some point intervene. Society is rapidly redefining where to draw lines, and this is another arguing point. My personal opinion is that if parents want to feed their kids like hogs at a trough and blow cigaret smoke in their faces, until there's some definitive harm (such as type II diabetes in the case of morbid obesity, or respiratory illnesses in the case of smoke) society should butt out, but that's just me.

Answer 3

the parents are the first and foremost protectors of the kids