IELTS Writing: Task 2

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Q: Parents of obese children should be punished for making them fat.

Do you agree or disagree?

A: It is argued that parents are responsible for the obesity of their children. This eaasy disagrees with
the statement because it is not possible for the parents to look after what their children are eating all
the time and also due to genetic factors, children can get obese.

Parents are not their all the time when children consume foods. Children often consume unhealthy
foods in school when they are away from parents. A recent study found that primary school students
consume an average of 75% of their daily calories during school hours.

Genetics is one of the main reasons children suffer from obesity. This is a disorder that many children
are born with and causes abnormal growth in physique even when children are eating less or
healthy food. For instance, an experiment on sixty children of age twelve are given equal amount of
healthy food for a week. This experiment was conducted by the university of oxford and found that
twenty five of the children were found to have gained extra weight.

In conclusion, parents are not to be blamed for the obesity of their children because it is quite
impossible for them to supervise the diet of their children and also gene play a role in determining
the weight of a human being.