Posted on 11/28/2014 6:51:06 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Nov 25, 2014 01:13 AM EST
Children of Working Mothers Are More Likely To Be Overweight, Obese
A mother's employment status could be linked to their children's weight over time, according to a recent study.
Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign found that the majority of preschoolers of working moms may not be getting the amount of sleep they need each night, placing them at higher risk of being overweight or obese within a year.
"The only factor of the four that we investigated that mediated the relationship between maternal employment status and child obesity was how much sleep the child was getting each night," Katherine E. Speirs, lead author of the study, said in a statement.
For the study, researchers followed 247 mother-child pairs from the STRONG Kids study.
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Liberal fodder for perpetual hand-wringing.
So let’s get more moms out of the house, right?
Its BS anyway.
My mother worked and I didn’t get fat. I was always busy.
honestly, I’m surprised they didn’t have a phony baloney study to say stay at home mom’s kids were overweight to further the Marxist agenda of having the state raise our kids. this study is unusual for being pro family.
Where bes da Baby Daddy’s o’these chilren?
*Rolleyes*
Well, between Michelle’s menus, and Obama’s job-killing policies, that problem should eventually take care if itself...
Yup. Some use the TV for a baby sitter.
The obesity couldn’t possibly have anything to do with developing an eating disorder because parents aren’t available...ie depression, helplessness, and hopelessness.
The state tries to deny the importance of parents in the lives of children.
Do they mean working? or “working”?
Big difference.
Mothers who have jobs also have enough personal responsibility to take care of their young’uns.
“Working” mothers get them gibs and spend their baby’s food check on crack and cigarettes, and 40’s for the baby-daddy when he show up.
OK.if this is the case...it makes the case for stay at home Moms....not a liberal philosophy by any means
Oh really! These people haven’t been to Walmart the day after the welfare checks come in.
It does make the case for stay at home moms. I have been lucky enough to be one for 16 of my son’s 18 years. He’s a senior this year.
Food has always played an important role in our lives. I love to cook and he’s picked up on that. We’ve always made it a priority to have family meals and talk and share our day. He’s always brought “bag lunch” to school with healthy food he enjoys - usually a sandwich with turkey, cheese, romaine, etc. and grapes or other fruit and homemade brownies or cookies. Sometimes it’s chicken noodle soup or spaghetti and meatballs in a thermos.
As I said, I’ve been fortunate in being able to be at home. It sure hasn’t benefited us financially with me out of the workforce for so long. Our retirement won’t be ‘grand’.
It was worth it though. He’s a well-adjusted young man, slim and strong with an after school job at a restaurant. And he’s smart - mom brag, in the top 7% in the ACT and has several college opportunities.
We never had vacations in faraway places - he’s never been on a plane. :( No big toys or anything. It’s been hard to explain when friends fly to Hawaii and such. We just have different priorities.
Husband and I both have B.A. degrees. We want him to be able to achieve more, just as our parents did before us.
Bravo! You have done well, mama, and I agree with your priorities.
Thank you, Yaelle. I appreciate your kudos. :)
And reading through my long dissertation...
Food is love to me!
You will have a wonderful “retirement”...having raised a great son and been a great Mom...the payback will be worth your sacrifices
Times have changed - in the '50s and '60s kids actually played outside and would be gone from breakfast to lunch then from lunch to dinner. We ate because we were hungry from a lot of physical activity - not because we were bored. As society "evolves" we have lost the simpler and healthier aspects of growing up. Not to mention the liberal suppression/demonization of games that taught us the realities of life.
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