Obese black kids: caused by more TV ads?

[~Tsuki~]

This has got to be the most dumbest. I mean it's the parents who let the kids buy the food. lol

http://www.wsbtv.com/health/8457945/detail.html

[Kudasai Hiroki]

I grew up on fast food and snacks. I'm 150 soaking wet. You know why?
MY PARENTS MADE ME GO OUTSIDE AND PLAY!!!!

I didn't sit inside all day playing video games and watching the "junk food ads" on TV! I whole heartedly agree with Tsuki. It's the PARENTS that buy the food. It's the PARENTS that are supposed to regulate what their children watch, eat, and do. That's who is supposed to raise children. Not socioty, not television, and not the schools. PARENTS!!!

Apparently this notion of parents raising children has been lost in the great "blame game" that has been played over the last couple of decades. "It's the music that makes them do it." "It's the programming on television that makes them do it." "It's the schools fault for not properly educating them."
If there is something wrong with a child, somewhere down the line the parents could have done something to prevent it. Whether it involved getting medication for a "chemnical imbalance" or just plain ol' fashioned DICIPLINE!

K. I'm finished now.

[Silver Adept]

The role of parenting is slipping away. Might be that parents, while they like kids, also want careers with them. Finding the balance between the two is tricky. Living lives that require two incomes does mean that unless the job can be structured so that the parents have time with their children, that things are going to be lost.

As for adverts apparently targeting a particular minority, it's quite possible. Especially since they say the words "demographics" in their marketing campaign. They're tailoring the advertisements to the people most likely to respond to them, just with the marketing data they get. Now we're seeing what their demographics have already told them - kids will draw parents into making fast food purchases, or parents will do it themselves.

[kurjohoto the III]

You are right parnets are to blame. They aren't doing their job some when there kids grow up to be overweight and lazy. They find someone video games, tv, media somebody to blame besides themselves. It really is absurd.

[Girkon]

The business I feel is less at fault in the whole thing. They're just doing what a business does, and thats advertise. Though at the same time blaming parents isn't gonna change anything either. It's the penultimate piece in the mass blame game already started that eventually comes full circle.

Blaming isn't gonna solve the problem one way or the other for either side. The solution is pretty simple, it just requires a shred of common sense that has been lost to the populace for along time now ever since it was thought that all your problems can be solved if you have someone else take responsability for you.

The core of laziness is indeed that line of thinking.

[Zzyxx]

You know i think it is funny.
It used to be that if a kid got in trouble at school the parents would back the teachers.
Now little Johny can do no wrong,
And it's obviously tv that makes him fat.
And the M rated games he's been playing since he was six make him violent.
Mom and dad,
Where did you go?

[Kugyou]