is allowing your child to become obese child abuse?

[NArocks 13]

like the preachers who molest boys??? yeah good folks

sorry amby OT

[Chica Yeyé 41]

like the preachers who molest boys??? yeah good folks

sorry amby OT

back to topic, damnit

[mawilson 2,133]

I have not really met too may religious folk that are not good honest people.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

OH SNAP!

[Heracles 417]

@ jesus platter

now please stay on topic peeps

It's hard to say. Obesity has a lot to do with the mind rather than a parent being negligent. A parent allowing their kid to roam the streets or misbehave on the other had, to me is negligent.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

Back to topic. A parent that does not provide nutritious nourishment to his/her offspring is negligent. And I don't buy the "good food is expensive and I'm on food stamps/am poor/ can't afford it" discourse. Bren volunteers at a food bank, and helps the folks who go there make charts and balance the food bank items for nutrition purposes.

Say you fed your kiddo right; but.... for metabolic reasons kiddo is morbidly obese. If And you do not take him to the doc, you are negligent. And there are programs to help poor kids with nutrition, so the we don't have health insurance does not cut it.

**off soapbox**

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You'd have to look at individual cases to determine whether there was gross negligence on the parent's part.

There was a mother in Arizona a few years ago, who was charged with child neglect because her children were malnourished....and she was a zealout vegan...wouldn't let her children eat meat.

[Chica Yeyé 41]

You'd have to look at individual cases to determine whether there was gross negligence on the parent's part.

There was a mother in Arizona a few years ago, who was charged with child neglect because her children were malnourished....and she was a zealout vegan...wouldn't let her children eat meat.

good. she should have been charged.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

You'd have to look at individual cases to determine whether there was gross negligence on the parent's part.

There was a mother in Arizona a few years ago, who was charged with child neglect because her children were malnourished....and she was a zealout vegan...wouldn't let her children eat meat.

good. she should have been charged.

Agreed. Proper nutrition is important for kids.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

You'd have to look at individual cases to determine whether there was gross negligence on the parent's part.

There was a mother in Arizona a few years ago, who was charged with child neglect because her children were malnourished....and she was a zealout vegan...wouldn't let her children eat meat.

good. she should have been charged.

Agreed. Proper nutrition is important for kids.

So it goes both ways...although I think it'd be more difficult to prove gross negligence with a child who is obese.

[Craneman 2]

You have not met Fred Phelps and his family from the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka Kansas, you would have a different opinion.

It's bad, but not as bad as religious indoctrination.

Indoctrination such as:

Like teaching respect, compassion, sacrifice for others, team spirit, community spirit, rising above hardship, self discipline, assisting others, civility

Yes, when delivered on a Jesus platter.

When not abused and taught correctly, religion has it's place.

I have not really met too may religious folk that are not good honest people.

[HAL 9000 96]

So are we going to see legislation making bad foods illegal for certain age groups like alcohol? Then it would make more sense to want to go after the parents of high-fat diet induced obese kids... My number one fight as a teacher with the school I taught at was in removing the soda/pop machines and the junk food vending machines from school premises... And you all know how that was quickly justified in terms of the kick back the school got from the vendors.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

So are we going to see legislation making bad foods illegal for certain age groups like alcohol? Then it would make more sense to want to go after the parents of high-fat diet induced obese kids... My number one fight as a teacher with the school I taught at was in removing the soda/pop machines and the junk food vending machines from school premises... And you all know how that was quickly justified in terms of the kick back the school got from the vendors.

I believe all the California schools have removed all soda and candy vending machines from their campuses. Yeah, I remember reading about the kick backs schools were getting in Fast Food Nation. I'm still surprised by what they offer in the cafeteria for lunches though. When I asked my 8 yr. old what were his choices for lunch that day, he said nachos or yogurt and granola.

[SuperDuper! 230]

It's bad, but not as bad as religious indoctrination.

Chubby altar boys are kinda cute? u pervert!

Chubby is not cute. Thin is in.

[HAL 9000 96]

So are we going to see legislation making bad foods illegal for certain age groups like alcohol? Then it would make more sense to want to go after the parents of high-fat diet induced obese kids... My number one fight as a teacher with the school I taught at was in removing the soda/pop machines and the junk food vending machines from school premises... And you all know how that was quickly justified in terms of the kick back the school got from the vendors.

I believe all the California schools have removed all soda and candy vending machines from their campuses. Yeah, I remember reading about the kick backs schools were getting in Fast Food Nation. I'm still surprised by what they offer in the cafeteria for lunches though. When I asked my 8 yr. old what were his choices for lunch that day, he said nachos or yogurt and granola.

I know...

Then there's the whole issue of a nutritious curriculum.