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Nutritional Status Of Preschool Children From Intact And Divorced Families

Department of Human Nutrition

Ruth L. Wynn

Department of Child, Family and Community Studies. Both at Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244

We examined nutritional status data on selected white preschool children from the Second National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II) who were from either two-parent, intact families or single-parent families headed by divorced or separated women. Income was significantly lower in single-parent families, regardless of mothers' employment status. Neither marital status nor work status was significantly related to laboratory indicators of iron and vitamin status, anthropometric measures, or nutrient intake. Children (especially boys) in single-parent families tended to have more low serum transferrin saturation values than children from intact families. Girls with single mothers had heights below the fifth percentile more frequently than girls from intact families. Al though we found no strong evidence for nutritional deficiency, there were indi cations of potential for increased nutritional risk among preschoolers with di vorced or separated parents.

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, 132-140 (1986)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X8601500207


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