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Parents skipping meals so children don’t go hungry as families struggle with longest cost of living squeeze in 60 years
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 28167778:MV8yMDYwMDU2XzM0NjU1MjUwXzk0MjcxMUM4] [quote:Booted and Suited:MV8yMDYwMDU2XzM0NjU0NjYxXzc3QjhCRDI0] [quote:Anonymous Coward 7570540:MV8yMDYwMDU2XzM0NjU0NjM4XzczMTNGMUM1] [quote:thadus:MV8yMDYwMDU2X0ZGNjk5NUJC] Is this is what supposed to happened in U.S. :( Hunger is becoming a reality for one in ten families who are skipping meals or relying on charity and hand-outs, a study said yesterday. In some cases, mothers are putting their health at risk by eating only every other day to make sure their children do not go hungry. Some nine per cent of people have sometimes skipped meals, gone without to feed their children or relied on friends, family or charity for food in the past 12 months, according to a study backed by Tesco. Source: http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2012/11/parents-skipping-meals-so-children-dont.html [/quote] I do have a little problem with the article - it appears they are stretching the facts to make it appear worse than it is. First, they say 10% are skipping meals - and then they say 9% have "sometimes" skipped meals. Well heck, I would sometimes skip a meal when my kids were little if there wasn't quite enough to feed them and me lunch (like canned soup or if we ran out of sandwich meat or something) but that didn't mean I didn't have a freezer and pantry full of food. I get a little sarcastic about this subject because I work in a poor area in rural Georgia. These kids get free breakfast and free lunch with each meal consisting of about 1000 calories. I also don't know one of those families on assistance who is growing a garden - too much effort for them. They would rather have somebody give it to them for free. I mean - they can't even plant a friggin' apple tree? But like the other poster mentioned, they all have cell phones, cars, and nice clothes. The ones I know who are actually hungry aren't the ones on assistance but the ones who are working at low-paying jobs and are just above the income limit to qualify for Food Stamps. They are the ones with the ragged clothes and the cars that are falling apart. The others? They are merely gaming the system and trying to make everyone else feel guilty for their misfortune so that we give them even more stuff. [/quote] Rural GA here too :) The school system is free breakfast/lunch for all students regardless of income. [/quote] Booted and Suited, in my state it is not free lunch for all, but they may be thinking of it. Supposedly to remove the "stigma" of getting free lunches, but when the majority do, there really is no stigma attached. The irony is that a local elementary school is doing a fine job composting lunchroom scraps from student trays. It is a good thing - but of course, it is not for the students - the compost goes to a local scout troop for THEIR garden. Can't teach them Home ec or survival gardens, nope! [/quote]
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Is this is what supposed to happened in U.S. :(
Hunger is becoming a reality for one in ten families who are skipping meals or relying on charity and hand-outs, a study said yesterday.
In some cases, mothers are putting their health at risk by eating only every other day to make sure their children do not go hungry.
Some nine per cent of people have sometimes skipped meals, gone without to feed their children or relied on friends, family or charity for food in the past 12 months, according to a study backed by Tesco.
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