April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - 30 Tips and Facts in 30 Days

With certainty, fattening kids up by making them overweight/obese is child abuse.

Nutritional child abuse is the most common form of child abuse of which we are aware. About one-third of all kids are overweight or obese. April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month in the USA. To help these children, who are arguably the most abused on earth, Fitness Watch will offer 30 tips and facts – one for each day in April – directed at saving the children. Even if you are not from the USA, these facts and tips can help you and your children, too.

Today’s Tip – The fact is that the overwhelming majority of mandatory reporters (discussed April 07) do not fulfill their obligations under the law and fail to report nutritional child abuse.

One thing you can do is report these lawbreakers to the authorities. The next time you are in a doctor’s office with your child and you see an overweight/obese kid in the waiting room, call your local child welfare services, tell them what you witnessed and ask if the physician reported the matter. Provide the physician’s contact info and get the name of the person with whom you spoke.

It is not wrong to report a violation of the law. Especially when the lives of children are at stake.

To see who the mandatory reporters are in your state, click here.