fruit and vegetables and their reported actual intakes were investigated. In total, 524 children and 123 parents from four …Low and medium SES children's knowledge of the Australian Government's recommendations for minimum daily intakes of … Australian schools responded to questionnaires on the topic of children's fruit and vegetable preferences and intakes. Around …

, 612 parents of primary and secondary school students responded to an open-ended question about their perceptions of the … parents' attitudes to a school food policy recently introduced into Western Australian government schools. The aim of the …

from a sample of 36 low socioeconomic parents with overweight primary school children to identify the barriers to their …In terms of health, children living in low socioeconomic families are disadvantaged relative to higher socioeconomic … children's participation in physical activity. Identified barriers included financial, parent, child, and environmental factors …

The concept of social exclusion has been widely debated in Europe but its application to children has seen relatively … little discussion. What could be meant by exclusion of children is the first main theme of the paper. Among other things, I … exclusion of children. The second main theme is the use of the concept of exclusion in the USA, where in contrast to Europe it …

) Internet skills and their potential predictors were assessed among a sample of Dutch primary school children. The findings … suggest that primary school children possess sufficient levels of fundamental but not advanced Internet skills and, hence …, might not be able to make best use of important opportunities the Internet has to offer. Children employed very ineffective …

A systematic review was conducted to determine the extent to which an economic case has been made in high-income … excluded, with the exception of support for parents with mental health problems, which might indirectly affect the mental … health of their children. Overall 47 studies were identified. There was considerable variability in their quality, with a …

We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …, indicating transmission through cultural factors. We find that, when both adoptive parents are overweight, the likelihood of an …

Children who have been sexually abused may suffer from emotional and behavioural difficulties. Recent research found …

experiences of online risk among children, the affordances of SNS lend support to this possibility, attracting much policy and … public concern. The present article examines whether the use of such services increases the risks that children and young … people encounter by analyzing data from a random stratified sample of approximately 1000 internet-using children aged 9 …

association between childhood family income and later adult earnings. We seek to account for the level of income persistence in … attachment. Changes in the relationships between these variables, parental income and earnings are able to explain over 80% of …