I recall reading a story 20-or-so years ago about schools where you could get your kid out of bed in the morning, take them to school unfed and in their pajamas, then pick them up at night, fed and pajamaed, ready to go to bed.
Don’t know if they covered weekends.
Apparently the school had a lot of folks in its area who wanted to have children but didn’t want to be parents.
Why is it abuse to spank your child, but simply a problem government needs to solve to feed them? I say we take children away from parents that send them to school without a lunch, lunch money, or having given them breakfast. Ask the kids a simple question, did you have breakfast this morning? If they are not eating lunch in a class or cafeteria, ask them if they forgot their lunch, note it, and ask again tomorrow. If the answer is no breakfast, no lunch and is a two day pattern, call CPS. The price of food is extremely low for breakfast foods. Ditto for lunches. People are drawing food stamps, make them lose them, or their reason (the children) for needing them. Starve the “grasshoppers” among us until the decide picking shi’ite with the chickens, or harvesting lettuce is a fine way to earn some “bread”. I totally agree with Michelle Bachmann, he who shall not work, shall not eat. Since they cannot feed their own children, they need to be housed in newly supplied orphanages. I am sure the price is close to or equal to the cost of social programs, or would be now. In the future though, people will adapt and the costs, and the number of children living with worthless parents would go Waaaaay down.
I know Rush would have been more sympathetic if he recalled that one of the high schools in Memphis had 90 pregnancies last year. Wonder if they are entitled to two suppers because... oh, never mind.