Many young children are thought by their parents to eat poorly. Although the majority of
these children are mildly affected, a small percentage have a serious feeding disorder …

Background Worldwide, the prevalence of obesity among children has increased
dramatically. Although the etiology of childhood obesity is multifactorial, to date, most …

Objective Measures of parents' feeding practices have focused primarily on parental control
of feeding and have not sufficiently measured other potentially important practices. The …

Child overweight/obesity continues to be a serious public health problem in high-income
countries. The current review had 3 goals: 1) to summarize the associations between …

Background Parents have some responsibility for children's dietary habits and they are often
the focus of public health interventions designed to improve children's diets and thereby …

Ethnicity is associated with differences in food-related beliefs, preferences, and behaviors,
and cultural influences may contribute to the higher than average risk of obesity among …

Purpose: The primary aim of this study was to examine whether parent affect and child
temperament characteristics differ across feeding styles in low-income families, given …

During the last decade, there has been a rapid increase in development of instruments to
measure parent food practices. Because these instruments often measure different …

There has been a growing interest in the role that shared family mealtimes may play in
promoting the health and well-being of children. Families that regularly eat their main meal …

Background A number of studies conducted with ethnically diverse, low-income samples
have found that parents with indulgent feeding styles had children with a higher weight …