According to a Sept. 28 PsychCentral article by senior news editor Rick Nauert, Professor Wendy Wills and her colleagues found that attitudes of middle-class parents were significantly different from those of working-class parents:
- Middle-class parents are more oriented toward planning and the future.
- They are more concerned that obesity is linked to poor health in adulthood and lower self-esteem in childhood.
- Middle-class parents took more control over their children's eating on a daily basis.
- Some of their attitudes were based on moral teachings such as the idea that obesity reflects laziness and a lack of self-control.
- Working-class parents were more concerned about the present and less concerned about their children's ideal body shape.
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