Children Don't Raise Themselves

Here's a depressing study on how some children are being fed.  The purpose of the study was to determine factors leading to childhood obesity.  Here are a few factors the research found:

• No breakfast
• Sweetened milk products
• Soft drinks at the child's disposal
• Toddlers with a tv in their own room!

All this looks like the parents are really just "checking out" and giving in the child's whims.  The study pointed out that the mothers involved usually had low levels of education and were low-income.  So the mothers probably had problems of their own to begin with.  But still, why aren't more people concerned about this?  Why isn't the government doing more?  These children are being set up for lifelong health problems with this early metabolic imprinting.