A recently concluded study has suggested that women who are into part-time employment are likely to have healthier children those mothers who stay at home or work fulltime.
Children of part-time working mothers ate fewer unhealthy meals, according to a research led by researchers from Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in Melbourne, Australia.
From Timesofindia.indiatimes.com:
“What we’re seeing is that mums who work part-time are better able to balance their work demands with family life and are more able to monitor their children’s eating habits and activities, which has direct health benefits for children,” telegraph.co.uk quoted Prof Jan Nicholson, from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, in Melbourne, Australia as saying.
“We need to find ways to provide full-time working parents with the ability to do that by promoting family-friendly work policies,” she added.
Nicholson said that it was still unclear why children whose mothers did not work were more likely to be obese.
It was also revealed that children of part-time working moms watched less of television and were more physically active than other children of the same age.
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