Associations between supportive and undermining coparenting and controlling feeding practices

Impact of Dietary Coparenting and Parenting Strategies on Picky Eating Behaviors in Young Children

“…One study reported that supportive coparenting did not lead to controlling feeding practices. By contrast, undermining coparenting was linked to using food for emotional regulation, offering food as a reward, and implementing weight-related restrictions but not to pressured eating or health-based dietary restrictions [ 43 ]. In addition, our results revealed that undermining coparenting was associated with more frequent picky eating behaviors, with its influence mediated by effective parenting strategies, further emphasizing the complexity of parental influence on children’s dietary practices.…”

Associations of mothers’ and fathers’ structure-related food parenting practices and child food approach eating behaviors during the COVID pandemic

“…Implementing structure within the home environment and around mealtimes requires that parents be cooperative and coordinated, share leadership/tasks, work as team and support each other in setting up routines, rules, and limits, all of which form the key characteristics of coparenting [ 45 , 46 ] or coparenting in the feeding context more specifically (i.e., co-feeding) [47] , [48] , [49] , [50] , [51] . Two recent publications have shown that co-parenting quality is related to food parenting practices [ 52 , 53 ]. However, neither study examined how feeding co-parenting or ‘co-feeding’ is related to structure-related food parenting practices, or if it is a moderator of relationships between food parenting and child eating behaviors.…”