{"id":30379,"date":"2010-12-08T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T19:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30379"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:23:00","slug":"are-poor-parents-negligent-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/08\/are-poor-parents-negligent-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Poor Parents Negligent Parents?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/Capture11.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/Capture11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"98\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30737\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this video, which I found via my friend Captain Crab, Kate O&#8217;Beirne (editor of the <em>National Review<\/em>) attacked the federal subsidized school breakfast and lunch programs. She did so by stating that parents who would find the program necessary must be &#8220;criminally negligent,&#8221; since they can&#8217;t put food on the table:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MTg5NjAtNDIxMzc\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"clembedhttp:\/\/embed.crooksandliars.com\/v\/MTg5NjAtNDIxMzc\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Transcript (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alan.com\/2010\/12\/06\/national-review-editor-kate-obeirne-thinks-kids-who-need-school-lunches-are-victims-of-child-abuse\/\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The federal school lunch program and now  breakfast program and I guess in Washington DC, dinner program are  pretty close to being sacred cows\u2026 broad bipartisan support. And if  we\u2019re going to ask more of ourselves, my question is what poor excuse  for a parent can\u2019t rustle up a bowl of cereal and a banana? I just don\u2019t  get why millions of school children qualify for school breakfasts  unless we have a major wide spread problem with child neglect.<\/p>\n<p>You know, I mean if that\u2019s how many  parents are incapable of pulling together a bowl of cereal and a banana,  then we have problems that are way bigger than\u2026 that problem can\u2019t be  solved with a school breakfast, because we have parents who are just  criminally\u2026 ah\u2026 criminally negligent with respect to raising children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an excellent example of the stigmatization of poverty: letting your kids go to class hungry would make you a bad parent, but taking advantage of programs set up to be sure kids don&#8217;t go to class hungry (and thus less able to learn) also makes you a bad parent. The problem here isn&#8217;t structural, or even about poverty. The problem, from O&#8217;Beirne&#8217;s manner of framing it, is that individuals who enroll their children in such programs are, by default, negligent &#8220;poor excuses&#8221; for parents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, which I found via my friend Captain Crab, Kate O&#8217;Beirne (editor of the National Review) attacked the federal subsidized school breakfast and lunch programs. She did so by stating that parents who would find the program necessary must be &#8220;criminally negligent,&#8221; since they can&#8217;t put food on the table: Transcript (via): The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,403,23384,36,272,85,283],"class_list":["post-30379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-deviance","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-economics","tag-marriagefamily","tag-politics","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30379"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42186,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30379\/revisions\/42186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}