Class differences in the food rules mothers impose upon their children: a cross-national study.
Many studies indicate that children in middle-class families have healthier eating habits than children in lower class families. Class differences in food rules, which parents and especially mothers impose on their children, may underlie these social inequalities in food consumption. The present s...
| Publicado en: | Social Science & Medicine Vol. 47; no. 9; pp. 1331 - 1340 |
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Elsevier Science
November 1998
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