I know this debate comes up often around here, but I think it depends a lot on the age of the child. For example, if I started putting cola in my 7-month-old's bottle, there's nothing he can really do about it. But there comes an age where the child starts gaining autonomy and can decide for themselves whether or not they want to eat certain things. They go to school and see that they are the fattest kid in the class, or they go to a friend's house for dinner and see that their friend eats lots of vegetables and they do not. When they become teenagers, most if not all of their income is disposable, so it's up to them to make the right decisions and not buy an entire paycheque's worth of beetus. I'm not sure where the cut-off is to say, "you can't blame this on your parents anymore," but it's somewhere between infancy and teenager. At the beginning, the parents are solely responsible for the baby's diet, so they take all the blame. But as the child gets older, they take on more of the blame and the parents have less of an influence on the child's diet, until eventually the child is solely responsible for themselves. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I agree with you, the fatty and the enablers both share the blame, but exactly how much blame each party is responsible for can be unclear.