re: When/How do we start punishing parents for disasterous parenting?

The kid is huge. He is one of the fattest kids I've ever seen.

And both the parents work in the medical field. They have to see how obesity affects people everyday. I guess they are just too lazy to care.

They have a chair in their backyard that has been knocked over since I moved into our house 3 years ago. The dad just mows around it.

I absolutely despise big government, but shite, we would do something if a parent was beating a child to death, right? This is just a slower form.