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I think raising a child with bad eating habits should be considered abuse CMV

I am an obese person who grew up being allowed to eat whatever I wanted when I wanted it. My parents would buy me poptarts, sugary cereals, packs of American cheese, cookies, cakes, etc. When they divorced, my mother would cook me healthy meals, but she let me eat any snack I wanted in between. Eventually when I was 10-11 she stopped cooking for both of us and we ate separately, which meant poptarts for dinner for me. She is overweight too and for my entire childhood I didn't think there was anything wrong with being heavy. I knew I wasn't good at sports, but I didn't think that was important. It was only when I reached my teens that I found out the health risks that come with being obese. While I don't have any resentment for my mother, I feel like she has crippled me at the start of my life by giving me almost two decades of bad habits to overcome.

I know that I am not unique in this situation, and that many parents will encourage their children to overeat or "clean their plate" even when the child is full. There are also families in which unhealthy foods are eaten for the majority of meals. I know that many parents "show their love" through food with generous portions and tons of unhealthy treats, but I think they are actively harming their child by doing this. While the parent is not hurting the child directly, like striking them or verbally abusing them, they are giving them a bad quality of life and ultimately putting roadblocks in the way of them having a healthy life. Not to mention that being overweight puts children in the spotlight for bullies, in school and in adulthood. Even in the workplace or on sites like Reddit with plenty of adult members, people who are fat are openly mocked.

EDIT: View has been changed. I no longer think parents should be prosecuted but I do think that there should be a much much stronger emphasis on nutrition in school and more public campaigns to teach people about eating healthy.

EDIT 2: So long and thanks for all the fish, folks. This has been nice.
gpt
Just because something may not be the best parenting habit doesn't mean it should be considered abuse. 

Let's say a kids parents put no importance on school work and education. That kid ends up working a dead end job for his whole life and doesn't live what we would call a "good life". Is this abuse? No. Is it poor parenting, yes. 

If you introduce such blurry lines into the world of child abuse, any suboptimal parenting practices could be twisted to be abuse and parents would lose the freedom to parent how they choose.

Tl;dr: it's  a slippery slope to call poor diet "abuse"