As a society we're all responsible for... everything. Every invention, every murder, every obese child. That kind of statement might be true, but it's worthless IMO. Ed O.
But that wasn't the statement. The statement was that as a society, we are responsible for the epidemic of obesity. Not this particular obese child. And I kind of agree with that. If we as a society are a bunch of fatties (and we obviously are), then we as a society are responsible for that. barfo
If by "we", you mean you and some other people excluding me, then I have no arguement with that. I am not nor have I ever been a "fatty", nor have I ever encouraged it in America's youth.
When this happened months ago in Britain, the media there made it clear that the main problem was that the parents would never see their child again. When you are accused of mistreating a kid, you don't get visiting privileges, his location is a secret, and he's indoctrinated by counselors to hate you, so he doesn't search for you when he's an adult. The American article above doesn't raise that issue, so the reader doesn't realize how much the parents will suffer. The internet has let us discover that the British media is much more informative than the U.S. media about the Iraq War and everything else.
