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Food parenting encompasses the strategies that parents use to shape or modify children’s dietary behaviors. Examples of strategies include ensuring children have access to healthy foods, modeling healthy eating behaviors, using sweets as a reward for good behavior, and pressuring children to eat specific foods. In the context of epidemic rates of obesity in children, food parenting strategies that support healthy eating behaviors are critical to support child health. While food parenting research is a robust area in inquiry, with over 500 published papers, research to date has focused primarily on mothers. Given the diversity of family structures today, and increases in the time fathers engage in caregiving, fathers’ food parenting and its impact on children warrants attention. To address this shortfall, we recently initiated a scoping review of fathers’ food parenting research. Here we share preliminary findings including an overview of the research questions, study designs, sample characteristics, theories, and data collection methods. Drawing on these results, we highlight gaps in the literature and, informed by developmental science and results from a recent working group of fatherhood scholars, we propose possible solutions. Finally, we identify opportunities for future research using examples of upcoming studies from our research team and others. |
