re: Thoughts on kids and school lunches

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What I am saying is that there aren't enough foster parents in the system now, to handle the demand we have.

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So, leave kids with parents who starve them? Great.

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If we have no other choice, we have no other choice. But I don't want to move a kid from a bad situation to a worse one, either, and that's what you would do with the lack of additional foster care parents.

And foster care, you say is bad... but it's better than a state home, which is where most of the kids will end up. Get ready for that cost...

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The reality is that the parents who aren't feeding their kids by and large are doing so because they understand the system and know their kids are going to be fed anyway.

If parents were required to either fund an account (either with money or snap credits) to pay for their kids with real financial consequences if they didn't do so, you'd see very, very few decide not to feed their kids.

Refusal to do so resulting in Social Services getting involved, or fines/community service solves this problem to as great of a degree as you can.