You really don't know anything about my life....
Actually, when I got out of the army, due to various circumstances, (long story), I was homeless in LA, without a job, sleeping on the streets. Unemployment was 14% at the time.
I found ways out of it, WITHOUT breaking the law.
If the hunger of their children is so immediate, then I have two suggestions.
One, if you can't afford to feed your children, don't have them.
Two, if you have come into a sudden crisis and your children are hungry and you have no other choice, then rob a bank....IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.
If Three, you decide that the emergency is such that you have to break the laws of another country, then don't start demanding rights in that other country that you are breaking the laws of. By that logic, you can simply say that it isn't right to put someone in jail for stealing from a store, bank, people on the street, etc... to feed his family.
