Participants discussed the following themes relating to the influence of their mother or other female relation (Mom) on their families' food choices: Relationship with Mom, Just like Mom, 'Kinda' like Mom, Different than Mom, and Mom's Influence on Children's Food Choices.
Ruth stands ready to follow a best-loved female relation anywhere on earth at any cost.
Lisette was too frightened to react when the policewoman took hold of her arm at the elbow, not forcibly but firmly, as a female relation might, walking Lisette down the stairs, talking to her in a calm, kindly, matter-of-fact voice that signalled, You will be all right.
In this context – the mundane celebrity fascination of a teenage girl – Anne Frank is every female relation you ever cared about: your baby sister, your little cousin, your wife or girlfriend in her formative years, that faded mantelpiece photo of your mother in her youth.
Thus, this paper will use photo-elicitation with interviews to explore the personal relationship between a mother and her mother, grandmother, or other female relation, and its influence on the present family's food choices.
Most importantly, this study found that the Mom effect, or the residual and persistent influence of a mother or other female relation on a daughter's family food choices, to be a major influence on her daughter's family's food choices, even when the mother is no longer omnipresent.
