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Baby Boomers Are Horrible Parents

Yes, your perfect, can-do-no-wrong child, is fat:Many parents of children classified as overweight or even extremely overweight do not perceive their child as being excessively heavy, with some wrongly believing that their child is "about the right weight," new research suggests. While 87 percent of children were overweight by accepted standards, "only 41 percent of parents and 35 percent of adolescents considered the adolescent to be 'very overweight'," the team reports. Among parents who felt their child's weight was "about right," 40 percent had children whose body mass index (BMI) was at or above the 95th percentile. More than half (55 percent) of the adolescents who said their weight was "about right" had a BMI at this level...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).