Parents of obese children be prosecuted with neglect

Children become obese through a lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet. By prosecuting the parents of obese children you force them to change their children’s lifestyles. Children who exercise and eat healthily are more likely to remain healthy throughout life and are therefore less likely to suffer from illness’s in adulthood. Weight related illness currently costs the NHS millions of pounds each year.

By intervening and warning parents that they are causing their children great harm, the parents will have to comprehend that they are part of the problem and can get help understanding what constitutes as a healthy lifestyle. If they refuse to acknowledge the problem then they should be prosecuted.

Nowadays there are so many warnings about the dangers of obesity that if a parent ignores these warnings it is out of choice. If a parent ignores any danger that could affect their child’s health then they are guilty of neglect and should be prosecutable offence.

From experience, I can say that the problem is not as much ignoring the warnings as it is a failure to control the child. Parents are not so ignorant of the medical maladies because they do see and hear the warnings. But many parents are unable to deny their children. They see the obesity as less threatening than the possibility of losing the “affection” of the child. Parents typically do not want to be the “bad guy” who must enforce the rules of positive values and will, in more cases than not, allow the child to maintain a poor diet and eat too often. I am the stepfather of a mildly autistic male who is now 20 years old and roughly 380 lbs. I’ve seen this played out in person and I can confidently state that, until this allowance of bad vaules is changed, this problem will run even more rampantly. If parents are unwilling or simply unable to make the necessary changes then, perhaps it is time for the legal system to step in…they would if the child were being physically abused. I maintain that the outright allowance of obesity and its many maladies IS physical abuse and should be dealt with appropriately.

Excercise is free in the cities as well as the country side. There are the streets and parks and canals. From the time you open your door it is free walking, skipping…..however you wish to do it….no charge and the results are rewarding. It is an abuse to childhood not to introduce them to this.

A lot of lazy parents blame food when it was never a problem years ago when pie n mash and fry ups and fish n chips were the staple diet, and to which contained more calories than a big mac or mc donalds. Why do people blame something else instead of themselves. Get them out walking or playing instead of feeding them while they play on a video or pc game. Refrain from giving them lifts everywhere, let them walk. Stop doing EVERYTHING for them, let them do it themselves so they learn also, otherwise it is a form of abuse.

It is not in the genes unless possibly because the parents have always been fat. It was never an issue til about 30 yrs ago when parents started to get lazy, and in so doing allowed the kids to eat when and what they wanted without any form of excercise. One child I knew was driven everywhere and when not at school his meals and snacks were taken to him in his bedroom where he played on games all day and night. What sort of life is that ? it is abuse and it is happening in too many households. There was only one fat person at my school because we walked everywhere and played outside.

How can fat be in the genes ? it was never in the genes before ask your parents and their parents, it was rare to see a fatty at school. It is down to being idle and innactive. Idleness of the fatty and idle of the parents is the problem. How come it was never an issue until now after thousands of years ?. Just bone idleness.

children can also dispose of their lunch(either by induced vomiting or by throwing it in a trashcan) without their parents knowledge. That does not make it any less of a parental responsibility.
Sometimes; it is the job of parents to make it their business.

This point makes children sound like the pet dog! If parents didn’t have the means or time to care for their children and let them live a healthy lifestyle then they should never have become parents. There are many easy ways to excercise, just like walking to school, or going to a local park for a kickaround.

Those studies have been refuted with more recent research that proves that eating habits are the main true cause of obesity at any age. ????????????????? eating habits with no excercise yes but there was more calorise in bread and dripping and fish and chips than there is in a mcdonalds,fact. Folk do not walk anywhere now, they do very little now so eat through bordom. A fit person can eat MORE than an obese person because they burn it off, fact, and proven myself personally. It is not the food it is idleness.