Futurity, February 15, 2017: U.S. teens in poverty go hungry so siblings can eat

“’If you’re really poor, you try to sacrifice yourself first, but when you’re forced to make some choices, these parents are deciding to let the teens not have enough—if they have to give up on something, they’re giving up on teenagers,’ says Robert Moffitt, professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University and lead author of a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. ‘It’s hard to imagine parents having to do that.'”