Children's Feeding Problems in Relation To the Food Aversions in the Family

The present study was undertaken to investigate the food preferences and aversions of a group of young children, and to determine their relationships to food aversions among members of their families. In an attempt to throw light on some of the psychological factors underlying children's feeding problems attention has been devoted to: 1) the kinds of food offered to a group of feeding problem cases and to a similar group of normal eaters; 2) the kinds of food most frequently liked, disliked and refused by each group and the frequencies of these attitudes in each group; 3) the relation between age and attitude toward food; 4) the frequency of identical child and family food dislikes; and 5) frequencies of identical child-parent and of identical child-sibling food