The parents of obese children in court

We think a sentence from a novel dubious science fiction, mixture of 1984, the Trial of Kafka and Minority Report. It is not, that is what is happening in Britain where social services are beginning to hold parents responsible for the obesity of their children.

In the UK, it is not good parenting. For several years now, the British government took the unfortunate habit of mixing family life of its people, giving a mandate to save at all costs, children who have the misfortune to have parents deemed irresponsible.

Thus we learn, at the site of the BBC, a six-year-old boy was abducted from his parents by social services because he is obese.

Overweight begins, in fact, be considered a type of abuse within the Kingdom of His Majesty. The Telegraph also looks at the case and reported that seven obese children were recently placed in foster care because of their weight on.

But why this sudden interest? Apparently, according to the Times Online, the figures were "alarming". In less than 10 years, the number of children under 11 years old and suffer from obesity rose from 9.9% in 1995 to 13.4% in 2004. This means that Sir John Krebs, head of the Food Standards Agency, the diet of children today, combined with lack of exercise, would result that life expectancy would be toddlers less than their parents.

But we know it is not so much a concern to the health of children than the weight of budgetary expenditures related to this social problem.

Thus, learns on the website of the British Parliament that the Health Committee published in 2004, a report indicating that the costs of obesity (in treatment of various diseases caused by overweight) would be 7 , 4 billion pounds (over 15 billion dollars) per year!

Where are the figures? How were they calculated? ...

The question is not to emphasize Tam Fry, board member of the Child Growth Foundation, "parents must be held accountable. Allowing such as obesity is abusing children. "

Tom Solomon, a doctor at the hospital the Royal Liverpool University agrees: "The State intervenes in the education of children: parents who do not send their children to school eventually be brought to justice. Being rude is not dangerous, but at the moment, we are making our children diabetic and we are even now killing them with our eating habits. "

That children are eating fruits and vegetables with pesticides, they have every day of GMOs in their bases, on s'en fout. And they eventually die from cancer due to pollution ... this is not really important!

As long as they are not obese ...