Nanny state snatches kids for being too fat

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200% Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school then their classmates who live with two parents.

72% Seventy-two percent of all teenage murderers grew up without fathers.
1100% Fatherless children are eleven times more likely then are children from intact families to exhibit violent behavior.

80% Eighty percent of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes.

70% Seventy percent of the kids now incarcerated in juvenile corrections facilities grew up in a single-parent environment.

75% Three out of four teen suicides occur in single-parent families.

164% Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, the daughters of single parents are 164-percent more likely to become pregnant before marriage.

53% Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, 53 percent more likely to marry as teenagers.

92% Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, 92 percent more likely to dissolve their own marriages.

900% The absence of a biological father increases by 900 percent a daughter’s vulnerability to rape and sexual abuse (often these assaults are committed by stepfathers or the boyfriends of custodial mothers).

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Sonsie

And these legions of kids would be taken care of how? Some huge government care facility that would be the equivalent of orphanages in the past? Government boarding schools? Farm them out to foster homes of which there are not enough already?

You don't think that's a good idea?

Why do you hate children? And America?

[Sonsie]

Originally Posted by pixiegirl

Well since its never going to happen I'm pretty much just speaking out of my ass and giving an opinion. But quite frankly ANY of your aforementioned would be better than what a lot of kids really do live in.

I agree when it comes to physical abuse and substance abuse cases. Drunken crackhead parents produce some real jacked up kids who perpetuate the cycle of poverty and crime. However, overfed overindulged fat kids might be unhealthy but rarely turn out to be violent sociopathic criminals who terrorize our streets.

[morningbell (Premo)]

Originally Posted by pixiegirl

Well since its never going to happen I'm pretty much just speaking out of my ass and giving an opinion. But quite frankly ANY of your aforementioned would be better than what a lot of kids really do live in.

..... so my son stayed at his friend's house this weekend, he was told that he could have a cupcake for breakfast, yep, a cup cake, you'd think he'd jump at the chance..... NAH, he had an apple and a granola bar, his friend's grandma chased him around the house with the cupcakes saying, "no, it's ok, you can have one, really!".....

He doesn't always eat this way though.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by Sonsie

However, overfed overindulged fat kids might be unhealthy but rarely turn out to be violent sociopathic criminals who terrorize our streets.

If they could get someone else to do it for them, they would. So let's not excuse them quite so quickly.

[vraiblonde]

Originally Posted by morningbell

an apple and a granola bar

That's an awful lot of sugar for breakfast.

[Sonsie]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

You don't think that's a good idea?

Why do you hate children? And America?

Well it would be a good way for our lower classes to abdicate even more responsibility to the state. They can just go visit their kids at the state run home and not have to take any responsibility at all for their care and upbringing. They already don't have to work or worry about food or housing since uncle sugar provides for all their needs and they can go about their drinking and breeding without the inconvenience of a job.

[pixiegirl]

Originally Posted by Sonsie

I agree when it comes to physical abuse and substance abuse cases. Drunken crackhead parents produce some real jacked up kids who perpetuate the cycle of poverty and crime. However, overfed overindulged fat kids might be unhealthy but rarely turn out to be violent sociopathic criminals who terrorize our streets.

I disagree to some extent. I think the sociopolitical entitled mindset comes from spoiled ass brats. They're not any less screwed up just a different kind of screwed up. Family money can play a HUGE part in keeping them out of trouble. Its quite disturbing if you think about it, you know better than to walk through the ghetto at night by yourself because of the products of broken childhood walking the street but you're a whole lot less inclined to think about how someone was raised when they are your social equal until your kid gets molested or you hear on the news someone offed their whole family.

[pixiegirl]

Originally Posted by morningbell

..... so my son stayed at his friend's house this weekend, he was told that he could have a cupcake for breakfast, yep, a cup cake, you'd think he'd jump at the chance..... NAH, he had an apple and a granola bar, his friend's grandma chased him around the house with the cupcakes saying, "no, it's ok, you can have one, really!".....

He doesn't always eat this way though.

My mom is like that. My oldest doesn't like many sweets so I'm fortunate in that regard. The youngest would have eaten it and asked for another.

[morningbell (Premo)]

Originally Posted by vraiblonde

That's an awful lot of sugar for breakfast.

vs. a store bought cupcake with high fructose corn syrup?

Plus the fiber, the protein and all the good fuel that he would burn when he runs around outside.... I say it wouldn't bog him down like a cupcake and perhaps he knew that he wouldn't feel so blah by eating that way.