Childhood Obesity -- Should it be a crime?

[Sheriff Gonna Getcha]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

What is the penalty? Jail the parents and put the kids into foster care?

Exactly. What's the point of jailing the parents? What if the imprisonment causes them to lose their jobs, be less marketable to prospective employers, etc.? Surely those unintended collateral effects will not have a good impact on the kids. Taken to an extreme, removing the children from parents' custody likely wouldn't do the kids much good.