Won't Someone Please Think of the Fat Kids?

What the hell is this mess? What in the world makes the NC General Assembly think it is remotely qualified to “fight obesity” in pre-school kids?

I get the locus clearly enough. The state licenses day care facilities, hence the state thinks it would be great to micro-manage what kids eat inside those facilities. Let’s just cut to the chase.

Let’s license parents. If at least one of the parents does not have a full-time job (and you need to be able to name the father) and at least one of them must have a HS diploma or GED, you don’t get a parenting license. No license and the kid becomes a ward of the state. Kinda cuts out the day care middle-man, don’t cha think? I’d even throw in a requirement that the parents are married given the demonstrated negative consequences of out-of-wedlock births, but we’ll let that slide. For now.

If you really, truly believe the solution to bad parenting is more government, you better have to the guts to pre-emptively outlaw bad parents. Otherwise take your nanny-state ninnery and get thee to a nunnery.