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Filed under: Activities: Babies, Nutrition: Health
A five year study conducted at Texas A&M University recently reported that the amounts and quality of time parents spent with their children has a direct effect on children's rates of obesity. In general, researchers found the amount of time a mother spent with her child, her work stress and her income level had a larger impact in lowering the child's risk of obesity than the father's time, work stress, and income. Furthermore, the more time a mother spends with the child, the less likely that child is to be obese; conversely, the more time a father spends with a child, the more likely the child will be obese. The research focused on 300 families with the right demographics who were willing to participate took 15 months. Both parents and one child had to agree to fill out a complete two-day diary, and the participating child had to be either 9-11 or 13-15. The study found 9- to 11-year-olds' fathers spend an average of 80 minutes per day with their children, while mothers' average time spent with their children is 125 minutes. Children ages 13-15 included in the study saw their fathers an average of 95 minutes per day, while mothers of this age group spent an average 87 minutes per day with their children.
Income levels for the mother and father were also evaluated. It was found that as a father's or mother's come goes up, a child's body mass index also increased for 9- to 11- year-olds. Average household income for the father with children between 9 and 11 years old was $86,376, while the mother's income was $27,000. The study found a mother's income was more likely to be spent on the child, while the father would allocate most of his income on personal expenditures. It seems that income was a much bigger factor in the study than time spent with children. What do you think?
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