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RM> I guess it's one of those things where you'd not know what would
RM> happen until you tried it. Will it make them want to succeed or
RM> just produce a well fed new batch of criminals?

KW> Science says you're going to raise smarter kids with better mental
  > health and a better chance at success than kids left hungry without
  > positive influences.

KW> There's a spectrum of people out there - some have dreams of a better
  > life, others may not. Providing nutrition and care to kids when they're
  > at their peak of development will help the former, and certainly
  > wouldn't harm the latter.

One would hope so.. I think there's a major problem when kids are
growing up in a very poor income area where, even if they are
better looked after than others, there will still be peer pressure
to be like everyone around you or you get beat up at school a lot.

But I don't know if people removed from that hear the true story.
You seem to always see on TV shows and such that even the good kids
are being forced to join gangs and sell drugs and such and most
dropping out of school long before they could even think about any
higher education.

Plus you get the impression that a lot of these kids don't have
a father at home and a mother working 3 jobs to keep food on
the table so no one around to keep an eye on what the kids are
doing after school, or if they are even going to school.

There's no question, if you can break a kid out of that situation
there's an excellent chance that his children will then be more
likely to do well too and you end up with generational prosperity
rather than poverty.

I won't pretend to know this stuff inside out but my parents
worked harder and got better educations, getting degrees in
night school while working, and they ended up pretty well off
where most of their siblings did not. Those siblings are very
vocal about how our prosperity was because we were just lucky.

Move forward 50 years and we have 2 more generations and
all are fairly well off. Every generation usually does better
than the previous one *if they taught that hard work = success*..

I added that last part because I recently read that people
who inherit huge amounts of money, over 60% of them are often
bankrupt within 2 generations and that rises to 90% within
3 generations. This is the problem with just handing people
money that they didn't have to work hard to earn..

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