Parenting While Food Insecure: Links Between Adult Food Insecurity, Parenting Aggravation, and Children's Behaviors.
Parents who experience food insecurity face not only uncertainty in obtaining food, but an invisible emotional burden, one that can potentially influence both their parenting behaviors and ultimately, their children. In our study, we investigated adult food insecurity's link to parents' aggravation...
| Published in: | Journal of Family Issues Vol. 40; no. 11; pp. 1462 - 1486 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Aug2019
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