Severly overweight/obese children... a form of child abuse?

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I agree but kids lack reasoning. They won't even develop that until their late teens. They don't think about the future or consequences. Kids wants to eat the shit that tastes good. HELL..... Find me one person on this board that doesn't want to eat junk food if it wouldn't harm them..... Kids don't think about the harm. It's immediate gratification.

While the kids are young..... I blame the parents. They control what enters the house. There's a million reasons why parents give their kids junk food. My sisters ex-fiancé is severely over weight. His mother cooked him THE WORST shit you could imagine. Probably the best tasting shit too lol but she did it because it made him happy. It comforted him. He was an emotional eater..... He'd feel down and turn to food.

People like us..... We turn to the gym. We get satisfaction from a great workout. We take pride in how we look. It's the single most important thing in our lives. Most people don't feel that way tho......

I have to agree, Haz. I get pissed at my woman when she brings in the sugary snack shit into the house. Why? Because we will eat it!! I have yet to see a two year old bag of Dorritos in the pantry. Nor a three year old bag of cookies. So it IS the parents fault/responsibility.

You can always spot Americans while traveling over seas. They are the fat ones! Yes, I thinks child abuse. But most people are just stupid, but you can't fix stupid unless you tell people how stupid they are. Government should not be telling anyone what to do . . . just point out how stupid they are . . . wait that is how the current administration got in power.

Not arguing, but when I travel outside the USA, I really don't see the fat asses for some reason. I suspect that grossly obese people don't move around much, nor have the cash to do so? I see fat Americans, and Americans ARE the fattest, I just don't see Walmart Fatties?

I am going to say no. This hits home for me. I was severely over weight when I was a child but I was fat athletic. My parents gave me everything in the world but had bad eating habits and didn't (still do not) under stand nutrition. However if I was not fat I would never have been picked on as bad as I was. I would have had a different group of friends as the bad kids were the only ones to accept me. I could see my whole life being different.

My little brother is fat and he always says that his kids wont turn out the way he did because he wont do the same things my parents did but I often think you led by example and when you see a fat parent you usually see a fat kid.

I was the opposite of you. Short/young/skinny and intelligent to boot. (not saying you weren't intelligent) there are others that get bullied unmercifully as well. You just blame yours on your "unique" characteristic.

I agree that it is the parents responsibility but to call it abuse is ridiculous, ignorance, selfish yes. those fat people you see in Walmart are the product of food stamps and a broken welfare system. so in my opinion if there is an abuse it starts with the government run welfare system.

c'mon Bass, my man! really? you going to blame the government for these people's kids being fat? It STARTS with the parents, not the government. The government may be a contributing factor, but so is TV commercialism, grocery store merchandising....

....see my point?