A toddler in Missouri has died after going approximately 43 hours without food, authorities have alleged. The mother has been charged and blamed leaving the child for so long without attention on ...

The same records say that the child’s cause of death was determined to be dehydration. Apart from the lack of food, police said that the child had been left unattended in their crib for about 19 ...

while disasters like the 1923 Great Kantō Earthquake and major famines in Tōhoku through the 1930s led to the expansion of lunches for children without food. During the 1930s, the national ...