Divorce Causes Overeating in Children
Children often get discourage when their parents break up and separate. Reports from all over the world indicate that the increase of divorce has led to the prevalence of childhood obesity among many children in United States alone. Gaining weight in children is always been a balance of genes and environmental influences including high take of calorie foods and drinks not to mention the decrease in physical activities.
There are also factors in the family that contributes to overeating in children. Many of which include parental education, obesity, age, family income, family beliefs, and practices. But the surprising fact is that they have not included the marital status of the parents.
Recent studies show that children who live with their single parents were significantly develop obesity after a 5-year follow up compared to those children who are living with married parents. Last forty years ago about 10% of children lived in a single parent at home. This 2009, almost 40% of American children were born to single parents. Half of which will live sometime in their childhood with only a single parent and 25% of which end up living with a biological parent or a step parent.
The primary causes of this include a child’s emotional insecurity, parental conflict and departure. If a child sees his/her parents separated they are most often experience sadness and grief that leads to overeating and worse obesity. The love and care is gone meaning children tend to get rebellious at some point of their lives. Changes in eating also takes a huge role since there are no parents involve.
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