A new U.S. research, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, discovered that mothers who have some sort of intimate partner violence are rendered at a high probability to have relatively obese children by age of 5.
Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarrett of the Boston University School of Medicine and colleagues reportedly observed 1,595 children born from 1998 to 2000 until the children touched the age of 5.
"First, if intimate partner violence influences maternal responsiveness to the socio-emotional needs of the child, then feeding practices may be influenced”, the study authors posted in a statement.
Adding to it, they posted the second link witnessing severe violence in the family, often with emotional affliction and emotion-focused coping with help of food to self-placate and address negative emotions.
The study revealed that 49.4% of mothers admit to have some kind of intimate partner violence, with 16.5% of the children among these mothers witnessed to be obese at five years of age.
In addition, the findings grew stronger on the grounds of numerous factors including television watching, depression among mothers, smoking during pregnancy and child birth weight.