Parents of obese children should be punished for making them fat. Do you agree or disagree?

The parents of children who suffer from obesity should receive punishment for allowing their children to become overweight.

This

essay disagrees with

this

statement because obesity can be caused by genetics and children often eat unhealthy food outside of the home. Parents are not to blame because obesity can be caused by genetics. The DNA

that is

passed from parents to

child

can trigger a slow metabolism which

resuls

a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

results

in the

child

burning fewer calories than normal. Despite

givng

the act of giving

giving

given

the

child

a balanced diet or opportunities to do exercise, they may still not be able to maintain a healthy weight, despite the best intentions of their mother and father. A recent study found that 70% of all morbidly obese children

also

have at least one parent who is

also

seriously overweight and more than half have two. Parents are not present when

childern

a young person of either sex

children

consume most of their food.

when

Suggestion

When

childern

a young person of either sex

children

are at school, they eat snacks and have lunch and the adults have no control over their dietary intake during

this

time. A

child

could consume the vast majority of their calories during these unsupervised periods, without their mother and father's knowledge or permission and much of

this

intake could take the form of junk food. A recent study found that primary school students consume an average of 75% of their daily recommended calorific allowance during school hours. In conclusion, parents should not be sanctioned if their sons or daughters are too heavy because they are unable to supervise their diet for most of the day and genes play a role in determining the weight of a human being.