From a mother's perspective, her routine food choices were embedded in her daily practices and influenced by a primary orientation toward her children.
Findings from this paper establish that this sample of Mexican-origin mothers demonstrated a primary orientation toward their children that influenced their daily food practices.
Mothers' food practices highlighted salient values, which were influenced by a primary orientation toward their children and already have been identified as important values in mothers' food choices [ 5, 68].
This extends the first theme regarding the salience of a mother's primary orientation toward her children.
Children are presented in the center to represent a mother's primary orientation toward her children; children were separated from other family members to reflect mothers' perspectives.
Three themes emerged from the data: 1) a mother's primary orientation was toward her children; 2) leveraging resources to provide the best for her children; and 3) a mother's daily food practices kept her children happy, healthy, and well-fed.
Three themes emerged from the data: 1) a mother's primary orientation was toward her children; 2) leveraging resources to provide the best for her children; and 3) a mother's food practices kept her children happy, healthy, and well-fed.
Six peripheral elements (e.g., material things, capacity, non-income generating activities, income-generating activities, social network and relatives) were categorized broadly into people, things, and activities and arranged around the center circle to show that a mother's primary orientation was toward her children.
But at the same time it renders an entirely damning portrait of a certain type, one whose primary orientation toward social decay is aesthetic displeasure rather than civic concern.
Despite mounting evidence that health care systems with a primary care orientation provide better care at lower cost, primary care receives less funding in the United States in proportion to specialized disciplines than in any other developed nation.
A mother's daily practices were influenced by this primary orientation toward her children and required expert utilization of available resources (e.g., people and things) in creative ways (e.g., activities).
