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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I've lived in India (average per capita income is $1000, although there are many that make less than a dollar a day, I have in-laws from Mexico, and grandparents that grew up in the great depression. I've seen that children can usually be fed unless under the most extreme of conditions.
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.
I agree with you.
Forget the apple slices... kids need more fries not less in their happy meals!
Well, gee whiz, then why did Mickey D’s just unveil a Happy Meal with more fruit? Don’t tell Geraldine Obama about this, she says our kids are all too fat!
I’m confused. I thought all the kids were obese from eating too much “unhealthy” food.
If there is any veracity to this story, it indicates a real problem in America - not a lack of food, but an overabundence of stupidity in young mothers and an epidemic of broken families.
This has more to do with Parental Neglect than it does with the parents being poor.
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).
Their parents are too busy playing online games to make their kids dinner.
Posted on Tuesday, July 26, 2011 10:00:03 AM by SeekAndFind
The Census Bureau reported last fall that 43 million Americans — one in seven of us — were poor. But what is poverty in America today?
more..
So. For the article to say... "Many families are unable to afford enough healthy food to feed their children..." is a lie. It all boils down to a matter of choice.
You don't expect them to use the food stamps and ADC checks to feed their kids, do you?
That money is for booze and the lotto!
You are a RACIST if you don't believe that you owe them more of your paycheck.
More backstories for the budget debate.
B-I-N-G-O
Correct....go to any supermarket..and watch..a friend of mine works at Publix...she tells me it’s amazing what they buy with the card..
BTTT
They only way my kids would be under-fed is if I was first on the brink of death from starvation.
Ah, well. If The Ministry Of Truth says that's the way it is....
Correction, "MAKE 'EM EAT CAKE", Moochelle
Correction again, "THE HELL WITH 'EM, I'VE GOT MINE", Moochelle.
My question would be “how much out these families budgets go to cigarettes and beer and drugs instead of food for their children?”
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