I agree with you totally, @smyle.
I experienced starvation quite a no of times, i ran away from home a couple of times too due to starvation, fear etc. Thank God for grace, i'm alive today.
I feel this is a great lesson to me and you, as parents in the making, we really need to take note of some things our parents did to us while growing up and try not to do same to our kids, as we wouldn't want them going through similar occurences....