Wang Yilin, Lo Brian K, Park In Young, Bauer Katherine W, Davison Kirsten K, Haines Jess, Coley Rebekah Levine
Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Family Relations & Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
Child Dev. 2025 Sep-Oct;96(5):1718-1729. doi: 10.1111/cdev.70001. Epub 2025 Jun 9.
Racial and ethnic disparities in children's diets are prevalent. Little is known about how fathers' food parenting practices may contribute to these disparities. We examined racial and ethnic variations in food parenting practices and their associations with 2-6-year-old children's diets in a cross-sectional sample of U.S. fathers surveyed in 2021-2023 (N = 1015; 16% Asian, 9% Black, 6% Hispanic, 70% White; M = 37 years) using path analysis. Fathers' food parenting practices were significantly associated with children's diets, yet little evidence emerged that fathers' food parenting practices explained racial and ethnic disparities in children's diets. These findings suggest the potential importance of structural constraints on healthy eating (e.g., access to healthy food) among minoritized children beyond fathers' food parenting practices.
儿童饮食中的种族和族裔差异普遍存在。对于父亲的食物养育方式如何导致这些差异,人们知之甚少。我们在2021年至2023年对美国父亲进行的一项横断面调查样本(N = 1015;16%为亚裔,9%为黑人,6%为西班牙裔,70%为白人;平均年龄 = 37岁)中,使用路径分析研究了食物养育方式的种族和族裔差异及其与2至6岁儿童饮食的关联。父亲的食物养育方式与儿童饮食显著相关,但几乎没有证据表明父亲的食物养育方式能够解释儿童饮食中的种族和族裔差异。这些发现表明,除了父亲的食物养育方式之外,结构性限制因素(例如获得健康食物的机会)对于少数族裔儿童健康饮食可能具有潜在的重要性。