Terrible Mother blogger Heather Ryan has a moving essay, a part of Salon's "Pinched" series,
about taking her kids to a soup kitchen last summer. The fully
employed, fully insured, single mother of three wasn't there to give
her privileged kids a gritty life lesson on how the other half lives.
They were the other half. Or, at least a growing number of the other half.
Even
though Ryan had loaded up earlier that week at the food bank, she knew
if they didn't take advantage of a free dinner for families with
children in her city, they wouldn't have anything to eat by the end of
the month. She sucked up her pride, packed up the kids and went.
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