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

The parents of kids who suffer from

obesity

should receive punishment for allowing them 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 present when

children

consume most of their

food

. When

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

.

For example

, a recent study found that primary school students consume an average of 75% of their daily recommended calorific allowance during school hours.

Also

,

obesity

not only comes from bad eating habits, some people can't lose weight

due to

their heredity. The metabolic process in the human body controls how fast organisms will use consumed calories.

Therefore

if someone has a slow metabolism, they are naturally inclined to gain more fat. Even when the child is active and eats healthy it is not a guarantee for him being skinny.

For instance

, it was found that 30% of the

children

in North America suffer from morbid

obesity

due to

genetic disorders.

To conclude

, parents should not be under government control if their kids are overweight. Cause influence of junk

food

outside of the home and heredity can't be fixed by mothers and fathers to force

children

to lose weight.