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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should report a parent to CPS who refuses to allow you to feed a hungry child.  This is unconscionabme.  Only a black hearted beast lets a child go hungry.[/quote]
The parent is not letting the child go hungry. The child is choosing to go hungry because they are not eating the FOOD that is given to them. Now if a parent refuseed to give any food them that's diffent. But in op's case the child had food but wasn't hungry enough to eat it.  It's as if you give a child pasta, broccoli and chicken but they scream their head off and refuse to take 1 bite because they want chocolate cake. Same thing. Clearly they aren't hungry because a child who was starving and didn't know when they would see food again would eat just about anything. [/quote]

Most toddlers I know have never tasted chocolate cake.

Are you saying a child has to be LITERALLY starving before it becomes an issue? If I hate pasta, broccoli, and chicken and that's what my husband cooks for dinner, I'm going to skip a meal. I can make it up at breakfast and have something I do want. Kids, especially pre-verbal kids, don't have that option. Yes, people do send their children to bed hungry and no it is not an effective disciplinary method. It is destructive and harmful. 
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LITERAL starvation does not occur until a person has lost 30% of their body weight. A child who refuses to eat for a day, or even two,  is NOT starving.  Refusing to cater to a toddler's whims is not child abuse, and a non-verbal child will eat if they are hungry, regardless of if they enjoy the food or not (and guess what, they don't have to like it!).

Stop conflating this issue. Stop making it much bigger than it is. Food deprivation is a real issue for children, right here in our city; children with nannies cooking them 2-3 meals a day are NOT part of this group. [/quote]

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