Parents are more concerned about obesity in children than underage drinking

Parents are more concerned about their children being overweight or obese than they are about them engaging in underage drinking or taking drugs.

New research, coinciding with the first year of Safefood’s three-year campaign to tackle the habits that lead to obesity, found parents are gradually improving their children’s diets and increasing their exercise levels over increasing fears about childhood obesity.

Obesity now only ranks behind bullying as the number one concern parents have about their children.