What's for dinner? Types of food served at family dinner differ across parent and family characteristics

Eating the Family Dinner and Digesting Active Citizenship

The family dinner is an important social event that contributes to children's growth as active citizens in their community. This sociological study uses both quantitative and qualitative methods to study the family meal and finds that this meal is strongly correlated with the development of social cohesion and strong relationships among family members. There are many obstacles to achieving the ...

The relationship between frequency of family dinner and adolescent problem behaviors after adjusting for other family characteristics.

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between frequency of family dinners (FFD) and selected problem behaviors for adolescents after adjusting for family connectedness, parental awareness, other family activities, and other potentially confounding factors. METHODS Data are drawn from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997. The primary variable of interest is self-reported FFD in a typ...

Dinner for Two at Moonraker

New policies have been implemented at radio station WSND in response to the controversy arising from last September’s broadcast of the “ Radio Free Notre Dame ” program. WSND’s general manager Jim O’Brien worked with the ad m in is tra tio n to insure that a repeat of this incident could not occur. “ Things are working out well now and relations with the administration couldn’t be too much bett...

Absence at the Dinner Table:

Lovett ducks wand at dinner Food system employs computer

by Joan Hope C l e a n u p w o r k c o n t i n u e s th is week in the C h e m i s t r y Bu i ld ing a f t e r a fire last T u e s d a y r u i n e d a g r a d u a t e s t u d e n t l ab o n the s econd f loor . H o u s t o n fire m a r s h a l l s issued a set of sa fe ty r e g u l a t i o n s T h u r s d a y f o r the i m m e d i a t e c lean ing of the lab , wh ich was descr ibed by f i r e f...