When a Family of Six Can’t Afford Dinner, a Cop Steps In

Noted: All is not well that ends well, however. “The actions taken by this officer speak volumes about him as a person,” Kristen Shook Slack, co-founder of the Center on Child Welfare Policy and Practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, tells Yahoo Parenting. “But solutions to hunger and food insecurity cannot be solved by relying on ad hoc interventions by individuals, particularly those in the helping professions, where salaries are typically modest.”