%0 Journal Article
%T Negotiating food choice: parents¡¯ perception of children¡¯s eating behaviour
%A E. Mei-Li Roberts
%J Anthropological Notebooks
%D 2006
%I Slovene Anthropological Society
%R 1234567
%X This article is based on a qualitative study exploring parents¡¯ attitudes and perceptions of their role in their children¡¯s eating habits in schools in Angus, Scotland. Parents believed they had different degrees of influence on their children¡¯s eating habits. This article will examine these different perceptions of parental responsibility for children¡¯s eating habits to explore how parents viewed their influence over their children¡¯s food choices. I argue that although parents influence the degree of ¡®choice¡¯ that children have in their food choices, particularly ¡®healthy¡¯ or ¡®unhealthy¡¯ choices, children as competent decisionmakers, may not always choose to follow their parents¡¯ choice but instead find ways to negotiate their own aims, needs and wishes for food choices, suggesting that decisions regarding food choices are part of a negotiated process between parent and child.
%K children
%K parents
%K health
%K food
%K competence
%K negotiation
%U http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/AN/PDF/2006_1/Anthropological_Notebooks_XII-1_5.pdf