In my opinion, I think the weight of a mother’s can have incredible impact on the weight of their kid’s childhood because mother pregnancy weight or BMI can affect infant birth weight significantly with increased risk of obesity in offspring at an early age. The article by H. R. Clark, indicated that interaction was found between these two variables in predicting children's risk of obesity. “It was driven by the high proportion of obese children among obese mothers who infants had weight”. Primarily, this is an important issue to address because it is an epidemic in United States; according to the article, one out of five children in the U.S. are obese. In fact, “Approximately 17% of children and adolescents aged 2—19 years are obese”. It is
