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A new report has that children of mothers who work are more to be overweight. The study says that the more the mother works, the heavier their children be. The research is from the Institute of Child Health and Human Development in the USA. It looked at on 990 children related to the number of hours mothers worked and the BMI (Body Mass Index) of their children. The children lived in ten different cities the USA. Lead researcher Dr. Taryn Morrissey wrote that for every 5.3-month the mother was employed, her child had a increase in BMI over the expected weight gain for a child in that age group. She said: "For a child of height, this is equivalent to a in weight of nearly 1 pound [0.45kg] every five months.”

More than 70 per cent of American mothers with young children work. Dr. Morrissey she did not want working mothers to be at the research, saying: “This is not a for moms to feel guilty. It’s not maternal employment per se that's the issue. It's an environmental factor that leads to this association." She did not and say what these factors might be. One for older children could be that they eat too much food. Kids in grades five and six are more likely to what they eat and therefore have more fast food. One surprising in the research was that there was no between weight gain and changes in the level of physical of children whose mothers worked and those whose mothers stayed at home.