Monday, July 27, 2009

Horrible Precedent?

Mother may be charged with a felony due to her 14 year old weighing 555 pounds. Is childhood obesity a felony? Is this child abuse or child neglect? Please watch the video and THEN decide...

1 comment:

Saule Wright said...

TERRIBLE. Look, do I think she could have done some things different, no doubt. My aunt has 13 kids, NONE of them were obese or close to 555lbs like this one child. She worked *when she could find a job* and got wic. She was never strapped for things she wanted and the kids stayed with food in the house, so yea, it can be done even on a limited income. HOWEVER, when you start going down this path when telling parents how they should raise their kids, we are overstepping our bounds. There are normal sized kids that are unhealthy and that have issues where the parent is not "seeking enough support to correct the situation" as they are trying to judge this woman here, are we going to charge them? Parents need to step up and be better parents in general. I don't feel like this is a felonious crime.