No child is directly or indirectly responsible for our budget deficit
Fellmeth is the executive director of the Children’s Advocacy Institute and Price Professor of Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego and lives in San Diego. We don't get a second chance to raise a child. Ask any doctor and they will tell you that if a growing child is deprived of nutritious food for too long, this deprivation will follow them into adulthood, permanently harming their mental and physical well-being.
They can't get across town to talk to a government employee to plead their case. They may not speak or read English. And our most precarious children — children of parents struggling not just with poverty but also with addiction or mental illness — are powerless to insist their parents fill out and submit forms. Consider, too, that families who lack permanent legal status will not risk submitting more government forms that could be used by federal immigration officers.
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