SmokeAndMirrors
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making food avaliable, is not child abuse. demanding the child over-eat, under penalty of no tv, no video games, being grounded, or even violence, would certainly be abuse.
but simply having a full fridge, is not abuse.
Is it not abuse if the parents basically facilitate their child killing themselves? That is basically what we're talking about in these extreme cases. Kids who are so obese they already have the health problems that a 400-pound middle-aged man might have.