Does an Afterthought come about After Thinking about something?

"While I do not want to downplay the struggles – often rooted in racism – that farmworkers as a whole have endured for decades, I want to focus on the children of migrant farmworkers – often also farmworkers themselves – for whom the problems are more than just a small part of their lives, they’re issues that have life-long effects. It’s a tragic system that, sadly, many of us are complicit in. The impacts are going unaddressed because these children are seen as an insignificant afterthought, in a marginalized population that is seen as an afterthought."

~ University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Human Rights Program

"The Forgotten Migrants: Children of Migrant Farmworkers"

https://cla.umn.edu/human-rights/news-events/story/forgotten-migrants-children-migrant-farmworkers