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The journal states there is a correlation between mothers working and having obese children.Have you had some part in the research? I'm just going off what the sources have said and they're all directly attributing mothers working as the cause. I can't get hold of the paper itself as I'm not sure its in the public domain yet.
It's typical of the media interchanging causation and correlation.
Btw, if you can't find the journal - <cough> sci.hub </cough>
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In fact, having read the Independant article again, they don't seem to suggest that working mothers are the cause of their children being obese:-
The research, conducted by University College London, looked at 20,000 families and claims to be the first to link mothers who work to the weight of their children.
It found that children with employed mothers were more likely to be heavier than those with stay-at-home mums and that children of single working mothers were at the most risk with 25 per cent more likely to be overweight.
Words like link and likely represent correlation, not causation.
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