> Except so many people are incompetent parents... >... who refuse to vaccinate their kids, >> The percentage of children who have received no vaccines has in

> Except so many people are incompetent parents... >... who refuse to vaccinate their kids, >> The percentage of children who have received no vaccines has increased, reaching 1.3% for children born in 2015, compared with 0.3% among those 19–35 months when surveyed in 2001 (6). Some children might be unvaccinated because of choices made by parents, whereas for others, lack of access to health care or health insurance might be factors. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6740a4.htm?s_cid=mm6740a4_e https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6740a4.htm?s_cid=mm... > ... abuse them emotionally, physically, and/or sexually, >> 0.92 % >> The majority (77.5%) of perpetrators are a parent to their victim. Source: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2018.pdf https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/cb/cm2018.pdf > ...feed them all sorts of junk food (US obesity epidemic, anyone?) >> The prevalence of obesity [in children aged 2-19] was 18.5% and affected about 13.7 million children and adolescents. Source: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/childhood.html I'll leave this to you to parse out which parts of these are evidence of bad parenting; but it's pretty clear to me that the GP's statement is largely correct.