Economy's Silent and Heavy Toll on Children

[Are_grits_groceries]

In once-booming Northern Virginia suburbs, children who never had to worry about having a roof over their head don't know where they will sleep tonight.

In Cincinnati, newly-homeless families are splitting their children up among relatives because they can't find shelter together, much less feed everyone.

In Las Vegas, sons and daughters of the city's housekeepers and kitchen workers -- already living on the margin of the American economy – increasingly rely on "weekend food bags" from their school in order to feed themselves from Friday afternoon to Monday morning, when they can eat a subsidized school breakfast.
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When children lose a home, their health – and studies – suffer. "Kids in greater number are coming to school who probably haven't eaten breakfast. Who don't have access to a washer and a dryer. Who live with fear," explains Karen Fessler, a school official in Cincinnati, Ohio. "How important is a long division problem when they don't know where they're going to sleep tonight?"

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=6107646&page=1

SHAME!! The MSM should be doing stories on this. Those jackasses who pared down the "nonessentials" should have to sleep in boxes on the street.

You can't eat effing TAX Cuts!! THIS ISN'T A GAME!!

[SoCalDem]

1. Sacrificial lambs of the next generation

How many A & B students will now become C- students or even dropouts (for the older ones)?

[deaniac21]

2. World comes to an end, Women and children hardest hit.

[LiberalEsto]

3. No Child Left Fed or Sheltered

brought to you by Bush-Cheney & their Gang of Thugs

[Ocracoker16]

4. How can they forget about children?

Children are being forced to live in circumstances that are innappropriate even for adults. Children need to be in stable environments in order to develop and grow normally. Homeless children often don't sleep in the same place every night and they often don't get to live with their immediate families. When children are staying with mom and brother one night and dad and grandma the other night, they may not know who it is that they should trust. When parents are so stressed about providing a place for their kids to stay and food for them to eat, they might not have the time, patience, and the energy to teach their kids some of the practical skills needed for life that schools don't teach. Homeless kids are probably going to have academic problems, because the lack of proper nutrition and the absence of a place to call home makes it harder to focus on stuff that doesn't seem to be all that important.

Thanks for posting this article. Maybe the media could do some stories and show how foreclosures and such are ruining a generation of kids. Homelessness is difficult in general, but it is very damaging to children. They are the future and they can't be forced to bear the burden of a problem they didn't make.

[Delphinus]

5. K & R!

You are right - this should be all over the M$M!

[ulysses]

6. maslow's hierarchy. n/t