Single Mothers and Children

Annotated Bibliography

a) Full reference information

Brown, J.,Broom.H.D.,Nicholson.M.J.,Bittman.M.(2010). Do Working mothers raise couch patato kids? Maternal employment and children’s lifestyle behaviours and weight in early childhood. Social Science & Medicine, 70. Retrieved from https://mail.ryerson.ca/attach/13195249126310116186.pdf?sid=D/kc6EsWI/M&mbox=INBOX&charset=escaped_unicode&uid=3846&number=4&filename=13195249126310116186.pdf

b) A brief statement as to how the study relates to your research project

This study relates to our research project because it compares mom’s who are employed and mom’s who stay at home. This article shows a connection towards health and child development with mom’s who are employed and mom’s who are unemployed. Brown et al., (2010) argues that mom’s who are employed tend to have “Children who watch more television hold more favourable attitudes to advertised food products and exposure is related to higher consumption of these products” (pg,2). Television exposes children to commercials, motivating energy dense food, kicking p the obesity levels in early childhood ages.

c) The purpose, or rationale, for the study

The purpose of the study is to indicate if working moms tend to raise children who overweight or obese, as oppose to unemployed moms.

d) The hypothesis or research question(s) of the study

To investigate whether mother’s hours in paid work shape children’s lifestyle behaviours and, through those behaviours, how is the child’s weight effected.

e) Who the subjects are

The subjects within the article are the moms and the children.

f) A brief summary of the research methods and apparatus used

This research uses two waves of data from the longitudinal study of Australian Children (LSAC). By using children aged 4-5 and 6-7 years, it determined a child’s lifestyle based on their behaviours and therefore that illustrated their weight stays. This study used cross sectional analysis by stating small,...