This article is talking about the amount of children that are suffering from malnutrition in 5 countries India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Peru, and Nigeria. This is a rising problem, and it is becoming worse with time. They said that 1 in 6 families have kids that are leaving their schools to go work to try and provide food for their family. Also, 1 in 3 families have kids who complain about not having enough to eat because they don't have the means to provide the food for them. The families aren't even able to afford the most critical items, like meat and milk, and these are things that we take for granted here. Another reason for the increased malnutrition is that the price of foods is on the rise, and continuously rising. This has worsened the malnutrition rates, and that is because some of the families couldn't afford it before, and now it's even worse for them to try and afford with the higher costs. Families in all countries are loosing around 2.6 million children a year, all due to the fact that they don't have the financial means to feed them.
Malnutrition throughout families is a problem, and seems to always affect the children a little worse because they really can't do anything to help themselves. The fact that even if the children do make it into adulthood and don't die, they still have a problem with body deformations, and have brain issues. These children having to drop out of school to go into work is a problem, and that creates a child labor problem, and it also affects the way that the society is run. The kids complaining about being hungry puts a strain on the parents and the families, and is kind of a burden, and some of the parents just have to listen to it because there is nothing more that they can do really for them. We really need to make it obvious that these families are starving, and under nutritioned, because it is a silent killer, and many people don't even realize that it is happening around the world, and it is a major problem affecting thousands of families each year.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-17034134
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