Obesity May Impact Results of Child Custody Cases

While divorce is never easy and often ugly, some parents are taking it to a new extreme.

Research shows that more and more parents are attempting to persuade judges to grant them child custody by pointing fingers at their children. More specifically, their children's weights. These parents are blaming one another for their children's obesity, hurling accusations that the other parent is not taking care of the children's nutrition. Therefore, the other parent should be given custody of the youngsters.

Judges across the country are starting to take this argument into consideration as childhood obesity has become nearly an epidemic. In some states, like Pennsylvania, judges are starting to look at the physical, as well as the emotional, well-being of the child before deciding which parent should be granted custody. Shockingly, a child custody case in Oregon led judges to grant custody to one parent since the other was allowing the child to subsist solely on a fast-food diet.

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