To think letting kids eat McDonald’s weekly is borderline neglect?

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It’s not “a treat” if it’s regular.

YANBU, but I expect you will be piled on!

When you say weekly, do you mean once a week or several times a week?

Because there’s quite a difference between the two.

Lucky you if that is where you think the borderline for neglect is.

It's not neglect. It's not healthy at all but it's not neglect in the slightest. (And no my kids don't eat mcdonalds weekly I'd be broke!)

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Borderline neglect? Wow. You must have led a sheltered life!

I would say if their diet is balanced for 20/21 meals a week, a McDonalds won’t be an issue. If they’re having a McDonalds every week on top of an already shoddy diet, the diet as a whole is the issue to focus on.

Neglect is being left home alone age 3.
Or no toys to aid development.
Nowhere to sleep.
Insufficient food regularly.
No fitting clothes, no clean clothes.
No winter coat.

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One crappy meal a week is not neglect ffs.

Yabu. Personally I wouldn't give mine it weekly but as part of an overall healthy balanced diet its not the end of the world. Where I live there are pockets of poverty and all sorts of challenges facing kids, far more neglectful than this. Resources are stretched thin, so let's focus on the kids without enough to eat before we start laying into parents for this kind of thing!

Well it's lazy parenting and encouraging very unhealthy eating habits rather than neglect.

No, it's really not.

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You have had a very charmed life if you think its neglect.

This is a gross misuse of the term "neglect".

This.

Once a week is a treat btw.

A take out once a week does not make an unhealthy diet. Only what you eat each day does that.

Three years running battle with cancer and yes, my kids ate McDonald's once a week - probably more if I'm truthful.

Quite honestly, I doubt you would have lent my family a hand and as all I would get from you is judgement - I wouldn't let you near my family in a difficult time.

I think if this is your bar for what you consider neglect, you really need a decent dose of perspective.

You can't be serious surely. A once a week maccies isn't even in the ballpark of neglect. The fact you think it is shows just how charmed a life you've been lucky enough to live

Of course it’s not neglect, and I say that as someone who hates McDs and never eats it.

Starving your children is neglect. Letting them have a treat once a week is completely normal.

I don’t think it’s that bad, chips are high fat, but mostly potato right? Then you’ve got chicken in batter or burger, sauces and breads are highly processed, but the meat is fine. Fizzy drinks aren’t great but once a week is not much. Really depends on the rest of a kids diet.

'Personally I wouldn't give mine it weekly but as part of an overall healthy balanced diet its not the end of the world'

The kind of people who take their kids to MacD's every week I doubt give them an overall healthy balanced diet the rest of the time.

YANBU.

To everyone saying it’s a treat, I doubt that the kids who eat McD regularly eat unprocessed food rich in fruit, vegetables and protein on other days.

YABU. If you think that's where the line of neglect is, you are a little misguided.