The story is that this hapless father, party to a contentious divorce, offered to take his nearly 5-year-old son to dinner anywhere but McDonald's. The boy refused and threw a tantrum, so the father, not wanting to reward the boy's rotten behavior, drew the line: dinner elsewhere, or no dinner at all. The clueless tot chose no dinner, and now his poor father has been branded "incapable of caring for his child," by a court psychologist, who clearly has never handled a recalcitrant toddler in her life.
But wait a minute. Doesn't this stand in direct opposition to the FDA's impending ban of trans-fats? Wouldn't you think the court would find this father a nutritional hero, if not a good parent? And seriously, the kid, who, if he's like many of his peers, is probably overfed anyway, is not going to starve to death in one evening!
Being a good parent sometimes involves taking a stand. Parenting is hard enough without interfering strangers taking upon themselves a task for which they are so clearly unfit. It's hard enough to play the bad guy in order to raise good children; we don't need outsiders to make us feel even worse. If our society continues stand in opposition to good parenting, we will undoubtedly reap what we have sown.
From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/08/dad-criticized_n_4241370.html?ncid=webmail8
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