Fat folks in functional families, too

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It would be interesting to see statistics on whether

youth depression and obesity are more in divorced

families vs. intact families.

My anecdotal and personal evidence are that they

certainly don't automatically track together. I come

at this as a child from an intact family and as an

adult with an intact single marriage. Those things

don't immunize you from depression or obesity. Maybe

there is a slight statistical difference, but I doubt

it is " predictive. "

Families whether intact or divorced need to spend more

time with the kids in active activities - having fun,

getting exercise while having fun, building good

memories. We just held a walk billed as a Family Fun

Walk and it was very interesting seeing the number of

dads-and-kids who came, which is different from the

usual walking event demographic of mostly women.

Perhaps many did it as a fun activity on their

custodial weekend, and that's cool.

Me, I just set an example as the crazy aunt who

walks...