Kidney stones becoming more common in kids?

Kudos, fatsos. Fat parents have fat kids.

On the other hand, there are reasons to believe that more children may be developing kidney stones, according to Routh. Obesity is a risk factor for kidney stones, and the rising rate of childhood obesity in the U.S. could be at work. Since 1980, the percentage of obese kids between ages 6 and 11 has nearly tripled to 19.6 percent in 2008 according to the Centers for Disease for Disease Control and Prevention.

If true, this is yet another form of nutritional child abuse.