Parents And Children: Adequate Balanced Meals

Reading Questions Name: Institution: Reading Questions Q1. States and explain factors that influence parents’ ability to offer their children with adequate balanced meals. What policy changes should be implemented to overcome these challenges? Different factors can influence the access to food; these include money; lack of enough finances necessitates making adjustments on the flexible parts of the already tight budget. Since many components of the budget cannot be compromised, such as rent and electricity bill, food is significantly affected since it is easily adjustable. This makes it hard for children and adults to access balanced diet, thus promoting malnourishment. Parents’ poor choices where children are fed with foodstuff that offer little nutrition such as chips and sodas affect their health. Legal migrants sometimes are reluctant about obtaining food stamps fearing public judgment; this affects their access to quality food. To overcome these challenges, families living below the poverty levels should be provided with food supplements, this would in ensuring that families without enough money to budget for food are able to obtain nutritious meals. Additionally, policies should be implemented to make it a requirement that legal immigrants obtain food stamp and their children get enrolled in children’s health insurance program, this would help in protecting the welfare of the children. Q2. Is there a relationship between lack of money and health? What other stresso...