What happened was devorce ran rampant and people stopped looking at having children with the same responsibility. Rather than sit out differences in the sake of rasing a child and passing down genetics, they just split up.  This causes emotional damage in at least one parent which affects the child because now they don't have the same family unit that is required to raise a child. So they (myself) go (went) to school with no lunch because the parent didn't give a fuck and just used the child to win some sort of vindication over the other parental unit. Now that kid has no choice but to eat the shitty lunch. Except they have to two shitty lunches to burn all the calories from the sports played after school when parents forgot to pick the child up. At least that's what happens in a prominent white neighborhood where everyone "got their lunch from home". School lunches are a necessity in modern society. Apparently divorce counseling is not.