Two headlines which seem at odds;
Fathers responsible for fat children: Australia study
Single, obese mums breed chubby children
The key is probably father absence.
My comment is simply that without government subsidy there wouldn't be a single parent industry. The same is true of Australia. But it is implicit in the second article that more should be done for "under-resourced" single parent families. More redistributory social policy doubtless. It's seems obvious that reversing the subsidy policy would be far more effective than increasing it. Yet, as ideas go, it never even rates a mention.
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Single mothers are more likely to raise obese children, good message for adolescents - single parenting isn't all it's cracked up to be.
It's very unPC but this is the kind of message adolescents at school should be getting. It might make them think twice about having kids on welfare. Not big subsidy hand-outs and childcare centres at schools.
Gloria
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