Around here, and likely nationwide, the cause du jour is gathering food to feed the kids that have been getting free breakfasts and lunches in school. I know someone involved with school lunches and believe me, most lunches are given either free or reduced rate.
Now that summer has arrived someone has to ensure the kids (and families) get meals.
Really pi$$es me off that the parents have no, zero, zip, nada responsibility to take care of their own children.
And we are the enablers, like it or not.
In my part of the country (western Wisconsin), we too have been inundated with pleas by people to feed ostensibly starving children during the summer. "Who is going to feed these poor kids now that summer is out?" we hear them whine on tv and in the local paper. Not once does the interviewer bother to ask these people why the kid's parents can't feed them. I'm sick to death of all the "feed the hungry" programs that have mushroomed in the last 10-20 years...especially when Americans have been getting noticeably fatter in that time period...particularly children!