Home Feeders (Part 2)
I mentioned a couple of days ago how differently our society might regard people who dine at home if we had taken the same path about food that we took about public schools a century ago. A reader points out that the kibbutz movement in Israel did try to eliminate "home feeding" with everyone eating communally. More importantly, he points to this article in the Autumn 2002 City Journal about malnourished criminals in Britain--adults who grew up in such abusive homes that their mothers (what are fathers?) simply never fed them, and who seemed incapable of recognizing and preparing a healthy meal. Of course, we have such situations here too, and I mentioned that there are parents this neglectful.
I rather doubt that these British criminals are that way because of the lack of a public restaurant system, however. It is more that the completely dysfunctional family structure that means that these kids were living on potato chips and chocolate also failed to teach them healthy approaches to life.
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