In some places the children also get a backpack full of food to take home for the weekend. It is the old dilemma-do you let the kids go hungry because of delinquent parents?
When the courts turned the mental patients loose, that meant many of them got to get involved in child care.
So, I suppose we should punish young children on account of the failure of the courts to protect them.
Come on now, stand outside any school and see if you can spot a skinny kid. Maybe in the tony suburbs and in the private schools but in the inner city you won't see many.
Someone here posted a link to a youtube video of a black American Bandstand television program from 40 years ago. It was amazing, the kids were all skinny as rails.