Parents of Children With High Weight Are Viewed as Responsible for Child Weight and Thus Stigmatized.
Psychol Sci
; 34(1): 35-46, 2023 01.
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ABSTRACT
Courts in seven U.S. states have removed children with "obesity" from parental custody until children could maintain "healthy weights." These rulings-alongside qualitative reports from parents of children with high weight (PoCHs)-suggest that PoCHs are judged as bad parents. Yet little work has tested whether people genuinely stigmatize PoCHs or what drives this phenomenon. In three experiments with U.S. online community participants (N = 1,011; two preregistered), we tested an attribution theory model Social perceivers attribute children's weights to parents and thus stigmatize those parents. Experiments 1 and 2 support this model (across parent and child gender). Experiment 3 manipulated attributions of parental responsibility for child weight, revealing attenuated stigma with low attributions of responsibility. Findings are among the first to describe and explain stigma toward a large demographic (parents of children with obesity)-with real-world implications (e.g., for family separation, health care)-and may additionally illuminate the psychology underlying stigma toward parents of children with other potentially stigma-evoking identities.
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Psychol Sci
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PSICOLOGIA
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2023
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