The line we take on abuse / obesity / parenting is hard one, shared by some but not shared by others.
Today in the Daily Telegraph (Sydney NSW) William Hick wrote "Let's not muck around here - parents who allow their children to become obese are not just guilty of child neglect but also of child abuse".
"Fat kids - through no fault of their own - are destined to have a life of serious medical conditions and ill health. parents who inflict these conditions upon their children should be dealt with just as harshly as the law would deal with child abusers".
On the Gold Coast (Queensland) a random sampling of opinions on whether obese children should be taken away from their parents brought a mixed, if not confused, response.
Some suggested the kids should go out and play more. What does game-playing achieve? Others suggested that parents needed to realise that they're making their kids unhealthy by (bad) feeding habits. What would mere realisation achieve? One suggested that schools need money so kids can do tennis and swimming. What would playing tennis and swimming in a pool achieve for an obese child?
The most sensible response came from a teenager - not an Obesity Police Enforcement Officer - who said "you have to think of the mental state of kids", which is our point exactly.
We all frame our life from how we are raised. If we are raised on junk food (and by junk food we mean that which is not wholesome and nutritious) then we are cursed for life with the thought that the junk "food" we eat is all that is required (from the thinking "if it is good enough for Mum and Dad, then it is good enough for me.")
The concept of what goes in our mouth is what fires (or misfires) our life is not so difficult to understand. Is it?
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