Child Obesity and Poor Parenting Skills

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Child obesity and poor parenting skills
Introduction
Whenever one is in the public spaces there is a way that they are supposed to conduct themselves, which is generally take to be the personal manners. These are habits that trickle down from what our parents have taught us plus what all figures of authority around us enact in us as we grow up. As such, when a child misbehaves in public it is their parents that are at shame and is to blame for their lack good parenting skills. It is rarely the child, the person seated next to them, the government or the food store where the child is portraying the poor parenting skills of their parents or guardian.Why is it then that when a child is obese the blame is placed in the fast food stores and the adverts that are cast on the public spaces, the internet and in the television? Why is it that their guardian is absolved of all the blame, while they are the ones who are responsible for what the child take on a daily basis?
Problem Justification
Most of the research point towards the fact that fast foods are the reason that most of the children are obese. This is the case among other factors such as inactivity and genetic lineage of the children. However much of the blame is placed on the fast food companies such McDonalds, citing that their foods are not healthy and they may lead to health complications in the future for the majority of the population. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, this is mostly the case relative to the fact that most of the children who are obese today stand a great risk of developing cardiovascularcomplications, diabetes, high blood pressure, joint problems, osteoarthritis, stroke, as well as a number cancers including breast cancer, colon, esophagus, pancreases, kidney, cervical, gall bladder, endometrium, thyroid, prostate and ovarian cancer(Cdc.gov). All these are complications that could affect the children that are obese min the short run and some in the long run when there are older and in their adulthood. Compared to the general population that are much healthier and with normal BM, the risk of the obese children is much higher and more severe. Other than the health complications, there are also some social implications, given the fact that, children that are obese may be seen to be unfit and branded by the rest of the children in school. They may tend to have fewer friends as most of the children ridicule their size and their inability to be agile in the field of play. Such social stigmatization is not limited to the children play grounds as it also finds its way into the corporate sector, where certain body types are considered ideal. The society also tends to have certain standards that do not include one having an overweight problem.Ironically, a fair majority of the people in the US have been found to be obese. While that may be a concern, the main concern is that, in the last three decades according to the CDC, child obesity has more than quadrupled. In 1980 the percentage of children that were found to be obese between the ages 6 and 11 was a mere 7%, however, by the year 2012, the percentage was at 18%. The same predicament befell the adolescents between the age of 12 and 19. In t...