UK sending letters to parents: Congratulations! Your kid is too fat!

Parents will receive official letters telling them if their children are too fat under a government initiative to tackle childhood obesity.

The heaviest children will be described as “very overweight”, as ministers believe parents will not accept being told that their child is obese.

You mean to tell me that it takes the government to tell parents that their kids are fat! Let’s see, the child lives with their parent or parents so you would think that maybe they would have a handle on what they are feeding their kid? So whose fault is that then? But who is the government to tell you that your kid is fat? You made the decision of having a baby and being a RESPONSIBLE PARENT, right?

This program has attracted criticism from health campaigners because parents can opt out of having their child included and they are more likely to do so if their child is fat. Go figure. You know what will be coming next don’t you? Government will probably end up telling these parents how to take care of their kids. You know, what to feed them and show them how to exercise. So government will start taking care of the kid that you made a choice of having.

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Tags: great britain, National Child Measurement Programme, National Obesity Forum, united kingdom

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