Posted on 07/28/2011 7:10:18 AM PDT by MNDude
Doctors at a major Boston hospital report they are seeing more hungry and dangerously thin young children in the emergency room than at any time in more than a decade of surveying families.
Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children, say the Boston Medical Center doctors. The resulting chronic hunger threatens to leave scores of infants and toddlers with lasting learning and developmental problems.
Before the economy soured in 2007, 12 percent of youngsters age 3 and under whose families were randomly surveyed in the hospital’s emergency department were significantly underweight. In 2010, that percentage jumped to 18 percent, and the tide does not appear to be abating, said Dr. Megan Sandel, an associate professor of pediatrics and public health at BMC.
“Food is costing more, and dollars don’t stretch as far,’’ Sandel said. “It’s hard to maintain a diet that is healthy.’’
The emergency room survey found a similarly striking increase in the percentage of families with children who reported they did not have enough food each month, from 18 percent in 2007 to 28 percent in 2010.
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Now we’re to believe that in Food Stamp USA these kids are starving?
We also have the breakfast and school lunches for the underprivileged children.
2 things, some children are just small children and they call them under weight, they always tried to make a big deal of my granddaughter who has a very delicate bone frame and at average weight would have been overweight. They acted that way about my boys too and even as adults they both only weigh 135.
The other is the drugs, the drinking and the SELFISH mothers who sell their food stamps while their children do without.
“It’s hard to maintain a diet that is healthy.’’
BULL!!! It’s amazing how cheaply and healthily you can feed a family if you only would try.
Sorry, it’s a little difficult to imagine anyone not getting sufficient government aid to eat in Moscow by the Bay.
Something’s not right here.
Soetero’s work to convert the US into North Korea is succeeding. Give the guy credit.
Awesome post, Mrs. Don-O. Thank you.
Libs just ramping up to fight the fact that our country is broke because of 60 years of giveaway programs.
“Boston has deprived children, that I believe. Not because of the scarcity of plain good food, but the scarcity of plain good parenting.”
AMEN to that!!
Way back when I was young and dumb, my wife's grand mother was telling my wife and me about her child that starved to death during the depression. They lived in the boonies, had no neighbors and no food and no other resources, the baby died.
I, stupidly, asked her. "Why didn't you breast feed the baby"? She replied with a tear rolling down her face, "I was starving too, I didn't have any breast milk".
I didn't question her further but it occurred to me that possibly she wasn't able to ask for charity because of the common belief among some then, that you just never ask for charity, it just wasn't done for any reason. I don't know if that was the case, I hope not.
There is no excuse for this really. Except that parents probably don’t have a clue how to stretch a dollar for food, don’t know how or/not willing to do the work required to actually cook and prepare food (which is cheaper), spend food money on junk/prepared food, OR spend money on alcohol/cigarettes/drugs that should be spent taking care of basic needs. We are in a dependent, ignorant culture that does very little for themselves and are not very resourceful unless it is doing someone out of something.
There is no excuse for this really. Except that parents probably don’t have a clue how to stretch a dollar for food, don’t know how or/not willing to do the work required to actually cook and prepare food (which is cheaper), spend food money on junk/prepared food, OR spend money on alcohol/cigarettes/drugs that should be spent taking care of basic needs. We are in a dependent, ignorant culture that does very little for themselves and are not very resourceful unless it is doing someone out of something.
I’m asking because I don’t know. They can’t get unemployment or any kind of aid? There seem to be many programs out there available. I know it’s tough economics right now, and I’m not sure it’s going to get better. I think now is the time to be prepared to tough times, whatever you have to do.
Nonsense, there is a childhood obesity epidemic.
Dr. needs to get with the program.
“”The 27-year-old single Lowell mother, a former telemarketer who is now unemployed, relies on food pantries and other public assistance to feed her three young sons.””
My usual question - where’s the Daddy?
Years back my SIL found herself a single mom with a deadbeat dad and two kids to feed. She had little to no work experience. So she took up hunting and fishing. Nowadays she can out hunt and out fish anyone. She found the Lord too, btw. He is always one part of the equation that seems to be missing in stories like this one out of Boston.
“Hogwash. Food banks, food stamps, soup kitchens, blah, blah, blah. There’s no reason for a child to go hungry in this country (except, perhaps, lazy parents).”
DOUBLE-DOG DITTOS!! You could also add free breakfast and lunch at school, plus the food some schools send home with the kids on Fridays for the weekend!
Now we’re to believe that in Food Stamp USA these kids are starving? I wonder if drug tests on these mothers might reveal how some of their income is being spent.
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Ditto.
We also have the breakfast and school lunches for the underprivileged children.
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In addition, in many jurisdictions, the “needy” children are sent home with food on Friday, discreetly carried in a backpack, to tide them over for the weekend.
Vegan, Granola-munching, Birkenstock-wearing, Prius-driving, non-vaccinating hippies.
coming over from VT.
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