Ready for a rant....??

Ok, so I'm glad that this little boy Connor McCreaddie gets to stay with his family and not be taken into care, because I really do think it's for the best. However, I find it confusing that all the media attention has focused on how Social Services are having to intervene. What about the mother's culpability in this whole debacle?! I watched 'Tonight with Trevor Macdonald' on Monday evening and OMIGOODNESS the mother is appalling! ABSOLUTELY APPALLING! That may sound like judgement - and yes, I hold my hands up, I do judge her! I think there is a wider issue here that is perfectly illustrated by this story, which is the attitude and mentality of certain types of people in this country that see it as their God-given human right to sit back and expect the local authority to intervene. And these are, unfortunately, usually the sort of people who don't contribute anything to society, don't pay any taxes, live on benefits and EXPECT that the local authority provide for them. GAH this gets my goat! It becomes a vicious circle.This mother said on national television that she felt it was the responsibility of the local authority to sort out the issue of Connor's weight and overreating. WHAT ABOUT HER RESPONSIBILITY!? She said something like 'if I didn't love Connor and was abusing him, he'd be skinny and under fed' - so what? she's over feeding him because she loves him?? THAT is abusive in my opinion! I do think that eventually we will see obesity become categorised as abuse, perhaps not wilful or intentional abuse, but abuse by neglecting to provide healthy meals for the child. This is about education. This mother needs to pull her socks up and learn to cook, get out of bed in the morning, stop playing the 'i'm so depressed' card and set a bloody example for her 8 year old son who weighs 15 stone!!