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Should parents who allow their children to become morbidly obese be charged with neglect?

Asked by RareDenver (13173points) September 9th, 2009

I’ve always thought they should and my wife has just shown me an article where a mother has admitted to overfeeding her toddler because she wants her to ‘be fat like me’

She is giving her 3 year old 3000 calories a day, considering an adult male should have about 2500 and an adult female 2000 I think this child needs to be taken into care.

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