Archive for August 15th, 2008

STRICT PARENTS, OVERWEIGHT KIDS?

Parents who are strict disciplinarians are far likely to wind up with children who are fat by six, according to a study conducted at Boston University School of Medicine in the USA. The study also found that children of parents who are indulgent and without discipline, also have weight problems but not the degree of the offspring of strict disciplinarians with low levels of sensitivity. The children of neglectful mothers and fathers, those who are emotionally uninvolved with no set rules, fared about the same as kids raised by permissive parents. The study covered 872 children who were part of a group enrolled at birth in 1991.