Good. Begin with programs and education you would implement that would FIRST stop young adults from creating children they cannot financially afford, nor provide for emotionally.I'm perfectly willing to have that conversation.Really? The ONLY alternative you can think of is to let them starve?Well, at least you realize what I am describing is a painful scenario. It seems clear the alternative is to let the kids starve. We can do that--they are doing it in Somalia, why can't we?Yes, we know. It is a tale of woe.No, I don't think they're doing this intentionally. They have no clue how most Americans live, and especially not people living on the margins of survival. Neither do a lot of the posters here, apparently, who think it's a dandy idea.Betsy DeVos knows that. So does trump.
According to the right its, Let them eat cake. Better yet, starve.
I've told this story before, so excuse me if you've heard it, but my mom's first teaching job was in a one room schoolhouse in a very small rural community during WWII. One family sent their kids to school with no lunch, or on a lucky day, half a raw potato. Mom would pack extra sandwiches and say "Oh, look, they packed me way too much again. Can anyone help me finish all this?" She was the federal school lunch program. Not every teacher would do that, I'm guessing, across the country in this day and age. So kids who come to school with empty stomachs would stay that way all day.
People who lack all sense of responsibility are having children they cannot care for. It seems that we cannot punish them for their reckless behavior, so you have to punish those of us who are not as reckless to pay for their children's hunger.
As I said. Emotional blackmail.
I know we've got some welfare bums and a lot of drug addicts (at least here we do) on SNAP that are doing their damndest to use their welfare funds on other things, but should kids, helpless to choose who their parents are, be the ones to grow up malnourished, with stunted learning capacity? It's not an easy thing to fix, but simply cutting off the funds and letting people starve is too much. This is America, not Venezuela or Somalia.
Let Me know if you ever wish to have a real conversation about what we should do with children that society has to raise because the parents are worthless human beings.
A conversation cannot be had on hungry children in school not having proper nutrition at lunch until such time as we deal with parents to unengaged to care about adequate nutrition for their children BEFORE they have them.
After that, we'll discuss what can be done with the current children who have fallen prey to poor parenting model's promoted by society and how best these children can be cared for. That discussion MUST center around what is best for the children, not what harm it may do to the parents.