Yes. The commercials talk about how the kids don’t know if they’ll have any food from the time they leave school on Friday until they come back on Monday.
My thinking is that, if this is true, the children should be removed from the parents, and the money benefits being received by that parents should be cut off. Possibly many of these parents should be charged with child neglect.
It seems like the culture of demanding these freebies has allowed and encouraged many millions of parents to be completely irresponsible when it comes to raising their children, but they are rewarded with the money and “aid” that is available.
“My thinking is that, if this is true, the children should be removed from the parents, and the money benefits being received by that parents should be cut off. Possibly many of these parents should be charged with child neglect.”
Fully agree; thing is, a lot of these parents are so selfish that they literally keep it all for themselves and leave their kids to struggle to get even an ounce of anything to get them through the day like a normal kid and provide a foundation (psychological and material) for a better life.
I should know, my mother (now dead) was a welfare recipient from when I was a kid to the day she died. She put herself first and I was taken in by my dad, but she was a bad influence. She could do everything but work at a real job and grow up into an adult. A lot of recipients are like her and literally are determined to remain helpless and useless.
I do agree that these kids should be taken in by people who know how to handle them and also provide a good structure and a knowledge of the wider world. Once these kids understand that they don’t have to be loyal to those who don’t look after them, they’ll break ties with the toxic parent and be ready to move on and do better things.
I do believe that auditing of benefits should be done if kids are involved and there should be a regular visit by CPS (let the gov. hassle those on benefits) often as possible.