"We need to get a grip on this. As parents, we are giving our kids a death sentence...to make those choices for your kids and sentence them to this unhealthy life is criminal."

A crisis or a crime?

“We need to get a grip on this. As parents, we are giving our kids a death sentence,” said Debbie Mason, executive director of the Healthcare Foundation of North Sonoma County, after attending a recent meeting on the topic. “It’s one thing to be an adult, make those choices and live with the consequences, but to make those choices for your kids and sentence them to this unhealthy life is criminal.”