I spent nearly five years on an Anthropology degree so this is going to be very painful for me to say, but.... culture smulture. I don't care where you come from or what you have experienced, if you abuse your child into obesity and destroy their tiny bodies, their fragile minds, and their hope for any chance at a future, you deserve to have the child taken away and put in a home that won't neglect and harm them. I can handle crazy rights of passage in which 7yos stick their arm into a glove of woven bullet ants, but a life of physical damage, physical and emotional pain, and a short lifetime of failure and disappointment for that child is too much for me to accept.