Hungry Boys and Girls

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Originally posted by Kapoho Joe

I am happy that the children of loser parents are being fed.

I would prefer that they go hungry and that CPS be involved to find out why they are not being fed at home.

Rather than enabling crappy parents, why not prosecute them?

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Kids can be hungry without being neglected, and hungry kids need to eat. In fact growing kids seem to constantly need to eat, regardless of their parents socio-economic status.

I know I was always hungry after school, especially when I hit those big growth spurts where it seemed like all I did was sleep and eat. But I went home to a house with a well stocked refrigerator and pantry after school, not an after school program like Boys and Girls Club. That was in a time and place where it was safe for a kid to go home to an empty house until my parents got home from work.