In my area it is a school policy that a kid would not be denied food even if they had no money in their account - and every place I lived had organizations that would eagerly step up to address such a problem if and when it manifested.
For what it is worth, during COVID and a few years after, in my state every kid got free lunch in school regardless of their income.
I met the teacher following a photograph who tried to document the opioid epidemic, crica 2018 (we were young and naive, video is probably the only communication medium that's worth anything when you're independent, photography is harder), while I kayaked/hiked/rafted/climbed everywhere I could for the two month I was there. I think she work for a magazine now. And I'm still convinced West Virginia is only lacking a huge lake or a sea to be the best place on earth.
it is very uncommon to have children go hungry in America, because food is plentiful, and numerous charitable organizations would eagerly step in.
Bad parenting may happen everywhere in the world.
For some brownie points, googling seems to indicate that Germany has a hunger crisis:
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/09/world/germany-food-b...