Part-time moms have healthier kids

Mothers who work part-time are more likely to have healthier children than those who work full-time or who are not in the workforce.

Children whose mothers worked part-time watched about an hour less television per week and had a healthier lifestyle, Jan Nicholson of Melbourne's Murdoch Childrens Research Institute said.

"The main finding that we have is that the children of mothers who worked part-time were healthier in their weight and that was related to watching less television, snacking less and being more physically active," she told AFP.

"And that was compared to children whose mothers were in full-time employment and also those whose mothers were at home full time."

The research, contained in the paper "Do working mothers raise couch potato kids?" examined the weight and lifestyle of some 2,500 children when they were four or five and again when they were six or seven.

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