As a general rule, the answer is no. Children can be really picky eaters, and if parents let them eat only the things they like, they will end up eating only candy and McDonald's. So yes, many times parents find themselves telling their children to eat their vegetables and fruits so they can have a healthy and balanced diet. We don't agree with forcing them to eat when they're not hungry, but part of the parents' job is to make sure their kids are well-fed and nurtured. Yet, in some cases, it can be alright to let the kid eat something else if they don't like what the rest of the family is having, especially if it is a one-time thing and not a regular occurrence.
In this case, a woman tells an anecdote that happened when she was 12 years old. Her mother had gone to work and left dinner ready for her father to give to her and her siblings, but the father apparently was too lazy to do that. He chose to give his children some canned spaghetti, which his daughter didn't like at all. She asked the dad if she could just make herself a PBandJ sandwich, and then clean up after herself and the others, but the dad said no. he told he she couldn't leave the table until she finished eating what he had "made." So she did. She stayed there. Alone. For Hours, until her mother came back and found her there. She got so annoyed at the situation and her husband that it was the last time he ever tried to tell his daughter that she had to stay put at that table.
We can understand when parents tell their children to stay at the table and finish a meal. But in this case, it was simply ridiculous for the father to do that. The mother had already left dinner ready, and all he had to do was give it to her; he was too lazy to do that. He actively chose to give his daughter something she disliked, which wasn't even healthy, and didn't even let her prepare something else for herself! It's laziness taken to an extreme.
If you had been the mother, what would you have done about it?