Parental guidance suggested?

The unfortunate whimperings of cowardly sick care and social welfare systems.

Referring to the fat English kid situation...

This from the docs:

"'I've seen children that young even heavier, and I am not happy with the approach of thinking of this as primarily parental neglect because there are contributors to childhood [obesity] at every level,' said Dr. Katherine Kaufer Christoffel, director of Children's Memorial Hospital's Center for Obesity Management and Prevention. 'To pick out the family component as the decisive one seems grossly unfair and inaccurate.'

In up to 90 percent of cases, 'parents of most overweight children do not realize they are overweight,' Christoffel said. 'Their eyes are not calibrated that way.'

But when parents refuse to accept child obesity as a health problem, that's "very worrisome," Christoffel said. 'If the doctors say your child has medical problems because he is overweight, and the family says, 'Oh, no, we're all like that and we're not going to talk to you about it,' then your ears perk up.'"

This from social welfare:

"Marlowe said DCFS 'would typically seek to provide services and service links to intact families to help safeguard the child and strengthen the family's capacity to successfully care for their own children.'"

This should make you sick.