Part-time work to help pay for food may be an indication of serious food insecurity for a young child, but an indication of appropriate transitioning into adult responsibilities toward the end of childhood. Is it the experience itself, or the meaning it holds for a specific child in a specific situation that, conceptually, we wish to capture as child food insecurity? In the United States, children's economic and social dependence on parents generally extends at least until age 18 years and in many instances through age 22 or 23 with the completion of college.