The family meal, a ritual frozen in time; an Australian grounded theory study.

ABSTRACT: Family meals are recognized as an opportunity to promote the health of families. Popular discourse posits that changes to contemporary family life have made family meals harder to achieve and promotion of the 'traditional' family meal may be adding pressures to contemporary families. While research has been conducted on family meals over the last three decades, there is no explicit investigation of the experiences and practices of family meals over this time. Understanding the evolution of family meal practices across time is important for developing achievable expectations in relation to this ritual. Qualitative interviews were conducted with a diverse population of South Australian parents in the 1990s (n = 32) and with a separate population of parents in 2020 (n = 22) to gather their ex

SUBMITTER: Middleton G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10548410 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature