Andy,

I can appreciate your magnanimity, but I will reiterate the same question as others have posed earlier:

Would you be willing to take what your children need and give it to others? If it was between you feeding your child for another week or you feeding other people's children for a day, and that's all there was left, which way would you go? If it was between you keeping your child warm till help arrived, or you letting someone else keep their child warm during that time, which one would you choose?

Just assume that you only have enough to take care of one or the other, not both. Because one neighbor kid that you help quickly becomes another dozen that need help, which then become a hundred, and how much of what you have do you give up for the common good, when the others were not so forward thinking when they had the time and oppportunity to prepare as you did and elected not to, mabye because they figured you would be there to help them?