This article studied whether having overweight or obese children is causally related to the number of hours that their mothers worked. The researchers found that as the number of hours that mothers worked over the course of their children’s lives increased so did the likelihood of the children being overweight. The interesting finding of this study is that the group that is the most affected by this correlation is that of families with higher socioeconomic status. This finding is contrary to what is popularly believed about lower income families being more likely to be overweight. What this finding indicates is that for children in higher income families, the more hours that their mother works the less time that she has to spend preparing
