it is predictive of severe physiological outcomes such as stunting but also of the more moderate nutritional deficiencies that precede those severe and sometimes irreversible outcomes child food insecurity focuses attention on food but also on other interconnected domains of childrens daily lives highlighting the role that food plays in childrens choices between school and paid work between their own wellbeing and their responsibilities to siblings and parents children experiencing food insecurity also means that they are under stress given the important role that food has in family wellbeing and functioning