Research in leading medical journals about what and how to feed school-aged children remains disconnected from the complex realities of family life and the political forces that shape it.
Les mères ont été les seules à répondre à une étude sur les lunchs menée dans une circonscription scolaire.
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Au Canada, les parents, et en particulier les mères, doivent jongler avec les repas scolaires, souvent sous une forte pression.
Mothers were sole respondents to a lunch study open to any parent or primary caregiver in a school district with at least one child in kindergarten to Grade 5.
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In Canada, where fewer than 10 per cent of kids regularly eat school-provided meals, parents, especially mothers, are left to juggle school lunches, often under major pressure.
School food programs can also serve children’s critical social and emotional needs.
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School food programs should be key elements of governments’ COVID-19 responses. In planning these, the relationships that are part of providing food matter.
Boxes wait to be filled with provisions at The Daily Bread Food Bank warehouse in Toronto.
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The ability of food banks to meet the needs of food insecure Canadians has plummeted just when it is needed most. But food banks have never been able to address the reason people are going hungry.