re: New OECD study shows that Obesity is based on culture, not affordability of food

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Again though, other parents could have used that breathing room to enrich themselves and not care about their kids. It took personal, good decision making on the part of your parents to care about what schools you attended and where they could allocate their funds. All other poor kids in your neighborhood had the same "breathing room" as your family because of programs, but I am sure not all of them took advantage of it.

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I agree, I was extremely lucky. But something could have gone at any time in my childhood and it would have ended very differently.

For example, my dad was shot and killed in a road rage incident about 6 years ago.

If this had happened in my childhood, there's no way I could have made it out.