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You mean you’d feed him yourself and deprive his family of family dinner? Barbarism! Once dinner is ready, that’s the signal for your child’s friend to go home. Now, there are exceptions, of course, if you’ve previously made arrangements with the kid’s parents to serve him dinner at your house—say after a game or something. Also, on reflection, I think the lower and lower middle class kids were (and presumably still are) more likely to eat dinner at their friends’ houses. But not, in my experience, the middle middle class kids. They’ll just get snacks if they’re lucky. I should clarify that I’m speaking from a rural/very small town Midwest perspective. Things are probably different in the cities.
It depends on the circumstance of the invitation. If you live in a neighborhood where kids are in and out of each other's houses every day after school, then no, it wouldn't be customary to offer the friend dinner, though it wouldn't be unheard of. However, it's also pretty common to invite a friend over with the specific intention of serving dinner, the same as if you'd invited any other guest over for dinner.
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