How Eating Disorders Affect a Woman's Ability to Parent

How Eating Disorders Affect a Woman's Ability to Parent
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TOC \o "1-3" \h \z \u Table of Content PAGEREF _Toc131800208 \h 2Introduction PAGEREF _Toc131800209 \h 3Literature Review PAGEREF _Toc131800210 \h 3Methods PAGEREF _Toc131800211 \h 5Results PAGEREF _Toc131800212 \h 6Discussion PAGEREF _Toc131800213 \h 7Recommendations PAGEREF _Toc131800214 \h 9Conclusion PAGEREF _Toc131800215 \h 9References PAGEREF _Toc131800216 \h 11
Introduction
Eating disorder (ED) is a mental disorder comprising negative effects in eating behaviors that affect an individual’s physical, psychological, and emotional well-being. Notably, the recent diagnostic classification of an eating disorder includes bulimia nervosa (BN), binge-eating disorder (BED), and anorexia nervosa (AN) (Crow, 2019). Healthy eating practices are crucial for parenting mothers. Usually, parenting involves rearing children with utmost guidance, love, and care. However, most researchers suggest that ED adversely affects a mother's parenting ability. In addition, motherhood parenting positively influences children's physical, psychological, and emotional well-being. This role may be difficult if these mothers cannot control their well-being due to ED.
The available literature suggests that mothers with eating disorders may significantly alter the normal developmental process of their children. Furthermore, children whose mothers have ED also risk developing this condition. Most of the recent research is based on a systematic literature review, where researchers analyze and compile information from other scholars regarding ED. A systematic review is relevant in obtaining conclusions from various findings. This paper aims to establish an overview of how ED affects a woman’s parenting ability.
Literature Review
Martini et al. (2020) conducted a systematic literature review about mothers with eating disorders and their children. This researcher aimed to determine maternal ED's impact on children's development in dynamic aspects. The researcher focuses on temperament, psychopathology, cognitive development, neuropsychological profile, and their children's eating behavior. Martini et al. (2019) conducted a longitudinal study on infant attitudes and feeding behavior among mothers with ED. The researcher aimed to investigate whether maternal ED can significantly affect their infant's well-being and development process. In addition, the researcher aims to address the issue of ED in pregnant women and ascertain its impact on mothers and their parenting roles. In addition, this researcher also investigated behaviors that women may adopt during ED that may affect their parenting. One of the concerns that the researcher ascertained was to study the perception of ED mothers of their children, including those who were breastfeeding.
Mantel et al. (2022) analyzed whether the children of women diagnosed with ED had a neurodevelopmental disorder. In this research, the researcher's objective was to find the relationship between ED in mothers and neurodevelopmental disorders in children during their growth and development stages. In this case, the resea...