what I am calling out is that it feels like you are generalizing after learning about one specific and possibly isolated incident.

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...