measuring child food insecurity requires accurate reliable and complete information from children themselves children have the most complete knowledge about their own lives and experiences and child selfreport is widely seen as the gold standard for assessing childrens internal experiences such as quality of life exposure to domestic violence and pain although children are the only accurate reporters of their food insecurity it is important to note that what they are reporting child food insecurity may be substantively different to adult and household food insecurity adult food insecurity has been shown to have four core domains compromises in the quantity and quality of food and psychological and social strains related to food hardships