“””For some kids, that’s about the only food they get.”””
I’m not buying that at all, I’ve never seen it or heard about it, I experienced it in the 50s but because my mother would not plug into any government assistance and I have kept an eye out for this sort of thing in modern America and have not found it anywhere.
If mama is passed out from crack all day, I suppose it’s true it’s the only way the kids will get fed.
It’s what I saw in the 1990’s in the welfare town we lived in for too many years.
Your lack of experience with it doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen where you haven’t been.