{"id":8304,"date":"2009-10-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/01\/working-mothers-children-less-fit\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T12:00:00","slug":"working-mothers-children-less-fit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2009\/10\/01\/working-mothers-children-less-fit\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Mothers&#8217; Children Less Fit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/health\/8278742.stm\">news.bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UNITED KINGDOM, September 28, 2009: Children whose mothers work are less likely to lead healthy lives than those with &#8220;stay at home&#8221; mothers, a study says. The Institute of Child Health study of more than 12,500 five-year-olds found those with working mothers less active and more likely to eat unhealthy food.<\/p>\n<p>About 60% of mothers with children aged up to five are estimated to be in work.<\/p>\n<p>The mothers were asked about the hours they worked and their children&#8217;s diet, exercise levels and sedentary activities. The study, in the Journal of Epidemiology and Child Health, took into account factors likely to influence the results, such as the mothers&#8217; level of education and socioeconomic circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time constraints may limit parents&#8217; capacity to provide their children with healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity,&#8221; says Professor Catherine Law, who led the study. These children study less, exercise less, eat more and watch more TV. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our results do not imply that mothers should not work. Rather they highlight the need for policies and programs to help support parents.&#8221; For the full article see the source above.<\/p>\n<p>[ HPI note: This is not an isolated study. See the earlier articles &#8220;Support for working mums falls&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/7543576.stm\">here<\/a> and &#8220;Working mums harm children&#8217;s progress&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/business\/3267561.stm\">here<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: news.bbc.co.uk UNITED KINGDOM, September 28, 2009: Children whose mothers work are less likely to lead healthy lives than those,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}