New Divorce Study Highlights Weight Gain in Boys of Divorced Parents

Since last many years, research study taken place in different parts of the world regarding divorce or dissolution of marriage have revealed about many emotional challenges faced by children staying with a single parent. However, the latest divorce study and research report has highlighted another fact, as per which breakup between spouses may affect physical health and well-being of a child in adverse manner.

According to the reports highlighted by Alice Gainer of CBS 2, many kids face various types of struggles at the time when parents were about to break their married life, one of which is excessive weight gain. Dr. Judy Cohen, a well-known psychiatrist explained in front of the public that parents remained under stress, as after breakup, only one parent will look after and take care of every demand and chore, about which both parents take care previously.

Many times, couples fail to perform or fulfill requirements of kids in the same manner, as they can do while staying with marital partner. Dr. Judy and many other researchers involved in collecting divorce news and feedback in Norway have observed at about 3,000 different third graders and observed that about 63 percent of boys have trapped under overweight or obesity, whose parents have broken their married lives as compared to male children of married couples. 

Despite, the study failed to explain or unveil that the divorce has lead to weight gain, but perceived separation of parents as one of the factors, which lead to obesity problems in children. Dr. Judy Cohen commented, “It’s possible that there are differences in stress hormones between boys and girls that could possibly account for how boys might respond with eating, girls might respond with anxiety or other kinds of problems.” New York CBS Local