Media worldwide report on new research led by Lisa Kakinami, a PERFORM Centre-affiliated assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, suggesting that poverty and parenting style are important predictors of childhood health. The study, published in Preventive Medicine, finds that the children of authoritarian parents tend toward obesity.
Articles on the study were published by news outlets including The Toronto Star, Yahoo! Parenting, Psychology Today, Le Journal de Montréal, Canoe, AMEQ en Ligne (behind a paywall), News-Medical, Medical News Today, Newsroom America, Newswise, The Municipal Information Network (behind a paywall), Medical Xpress,Science Codex, FoodWorldNews, HealthCare Asia, Trend News Agency (in Russian), Kun.uz (in Uzbek), Stone Hearth News, Zenopa, Shraibikus (in Russian), Smart Parenting, Hot News (in German), News Day (in Russian), and Bright Surf.