I love SVU, but I could not finish this episode. It begins with a boy eating out of a garbage can and uttering the heart-breaking words "Please don't tell my mom I was eating." I expected it to progress from there to a story of a mother whose eating-disorder was so severe that she was subjecting her children to it. Wrong. The first evidence the detectives discover that something is wrong is that the boy and his brother are home schooled. How is that a bad thing? I was home schooled until high school, and though I have some problems with it I have more problems with the public school system. The second problem is discovered when the detectives speak with the older brother's former teacher and she informs them that the boy was not allowed to eat school lunch, because his mother packed him a lunch of "nuts, raw veggies, protein drinks." There is absolutely nothing wrong with that lunch and the assertion she goes on to make that o seven-year-old would eat it is both insulting and ludicrous. So yes, it was clear that the mother had control issues, but it was more clear that the writers had problems with homeschooling and healthy food. If I ever have children then I will most assuredly pack there lunches. It would be negligence to do anything else in a country where pizza is considered a vegetable. What's next, ketchup?
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