When a school lunch program was generalized and Japan became one of the advanced countries both in name and reality through the high economic growth, the economic conditions for the farmers were improved and the word of 'Poorly-fed Children' became obsolete today.
しかし、給食制度が一般化し、高度経済成長を経て日本が名実共に先進国の仲間入りをすると農家の経済状態も向上し、今日では欠食児童という言葉は死語になりつつある。