So there is a point where we can call it child abuse?
Because we as a society recognize a sickly thin child is likely not getting proper nutrition. An obese child is fine though, usually. At least in America.
Honestly, I was always heavy as a kid and got a lot of shit for it. I was over 300lbs when I finished high school and made it to 400 not long after. My parents were cooking for me and they used to make me an entire box of pasta for dinner and making sure I ate all of it since I was a growing boy. A lot of meals they made for me were over 2,000 calories by themselves, and I didn’t really now any better.
I’m currently at about 180lbs or so. This is after I went the other way and got so tired with being fat that four years ago I had put myself on such a restrictive diet I weighed 135lbs and started experiencing side effects from malnutrition.
So now I deal with a whole bunch of trauma like not being able to eat in public without anxiety attacks, I have 12ish pounds of loose skin that I’ll need almost six feet of incisions to remove if I can ever afford to get that done.
I absolutely view it as child abuse and I honestly wonder if my life would be better if my parents would have taken a nutrition class or if my doctors as a kid gave them shit instead of me. Surely the 12 year old is cooking and buying all this unhealthy food right?
Abuse is different from neglect. And unfortunately, even neglect is shaded by the common understanding of the time, because you can’t neglect to get your child vaccinated at a time when no-one knew about vaccines, for example.
So as society gets fatter, the threshold for overfeeding your kids being neglectful or abusive rises. Sadly.
I do think it would probably be reasonable to charge for neglect / abuse depending on circumstance in atleast cases where the child is severely physically disabled from their weight and there is no underlying illness in the child to cause such a desire to eat. Or maybe even further to if there is an underlying illness causing it and they refused to acknowledge such or seek help if acknowledged.
So there is a point where we can call it child abuse?
Because we as a society recognize a sickly thin child is likely not getting proper nutrition. An obese child is fine though, usually. At least in America.
Honestly, I was always heavy as a kid and got a lot of shit for it. I was over 300lbs when I finished high school and made it to 400 not long after. My parents were cooking for me and they used to make me an entire box of pasta for dinner and making sure I ate all of it since I was a growing boy. A lot of meals they made for me were over 2,000 calories by themselves, and I didn’t really now any better.
I’m currently at about 180lbs or so. This is after I went the other way and got so tired with being fat that four years ago I had put myself on such a restrictive diet I weighed 135lbs and started experiencing side effects from malnutrition.
So now I deal with a whole bunch of trauma like not being able to eat in public without anxiety attacks, I have 12ish pounds of loose skin that I’ll need almost six feet of incisions to remove if I can ever afford to get that done.
I absolutely view it as child abuse and I honestly wonder if my life would be better if my parents would have taken a nutrition class or if my doctors as a kid gave them shit instead of me. Surely the 12 year old is cooking and buying all this unhealthy food right?
Abuse is different from neglect. And unfortunately, even neglect is shaded by the common understanding of the time, because you can’t neglect to get your child vaccinated at a time when no-one knew about vaccines, for example.
So as society gets fatter, the threshold for overfeeding your kids being neglectful or abusive rises. Sadly.
In Australia they made obesity kids a crime and they called abuse rightfully so tbh
I do think it would probably be reasonable to charge for neglect / abuse depending on circumstance in atleast cases where the child is severely physically disabled from their weight and there is no underlying illness in the child to cause such a desire to eat. Or maybe even further to if there is an underlying illness causing it and they refused to acknowledge such or seek help if acknowledged.
Death seems like their line, yeah.
I’m thinking we should maybe bring that line a little closer to overweight/obese than obese/death.