The fat child-A sign of 'Bad' motherhood? An analysis of explanations for children's fatness on a finnish website

Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 336-347

  Kokkonen, Riina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Blaming; Children's fatness; Interpretative repertoire; Motherhood; Parenthood

Indexed keywords

EID: 70049085131     PISSN: 10529284     EISSN: 10991298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/casp.1020     Document Type: Article

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