Childhood Obesity And Parental Responsibility: Not As Easy As Some Would Have It

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 - 18:50 in Psychology & Sociology

Huffington Post has a piece up on whether parents of obese children are in denial. Of course, the comments are typical for Huff; there are the usual close-minded asses who assume that all obesity is a result of fat parents "sharing the misery" (as one commentator wrote).Like most things in life, childhood obesity exists for multiple reasons, and judging these parents to be unloving or abusive misses the complex factors that combine to create obesity in individuals. read more

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