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[OngBonga]

Kids going hungry? I had bad parents, so they must have bad parents too.

I can say with a great deal of confidence that at leat 95% of "hungry children" have terrible parents. What possible excuse is there? Ok, perhaps Mom has slipped into a diabetic coma and can't make dinner. I'm struggling to think of other ways a parent can allow a child to go hungry without it being the parent's fault. Medical emergencies, that's about it.

My personal experiences are relevant. You can't talk about hungry children and then tell me my experience as a hungry child is irrelevant.

[Poopadoop]

My personal experiences are relevant. You can't talk about hungry children and then tell me my experience as a hungry child is irrelevant.

Anecdotal evidence is problematic because you can't generalise from a sample of n=1 to n=1,000,000 or however many poor kids there are. I could just as easily find you an example of a single parent who's lost their job due to covid, has bills to pay, and is struggling to make ends meet through no fault of their own. But that would also be irrelevant because we are talking about the group of hungry children as a whole, not just the one or two or three kids I know of personally, or the one kid you once were 30 years ago.