Examination of the Feelings and Experiences of Postpartum Mothers Engaging with Social Media: A Qualitative Study.

This study examined how postpartum mothers experience social media within the context of mothering and their postpartum body. A subsample of 20 mothers (age 23-42) of infants aged 0-6 months who were exposed to body-focused social media posts as part of an experimental study designed to test social media's impact on body dissatisfaction took part in semi-structured interviews. We used thematic analysis to identify themes and subthemes generated from the data.

The problem of heteronormativity in family-based health promotion: centring gender transformation in Ontario, Canada.

Objectives: Social scientists have demonstrated that family health work is interlinked with heteronormative gender inequities. Yet family-based public health interventions rarely incorporate a gender transformative approach or address heteronormativity as a potential health barrier in North America. Instead, attention to gender surfaces primarily in family health interventions conducted in low- to middle-income countries with majority Black and racialized populations.

The Game of Queer Family Life: Exploring 2SLGBTQI+ Parents' Experiences of Cisheteronormativity, Racism, and Colonialism Through Digital Storytelling in Ontario, Canada.

In this article we describe and analyze five videos created through an arts-informed research project, used interviews and digital storytelling to investigate Ontario 2SLGBTQI+ parents' current experiences of inclusion and exclusion when navigating institutional and social interactions in everyday life in a post-legal parity context. The study centrally explored how intersecting identities with regards to sexuality, gender, geography, disability, class, race, Indigeneity, and ethnicity intersect with structural forces to influence 2SLGBTQI+ parents' inclusion and exclusion experiences. We examine research creation activities that supported 2SLGBTQI+ parents in making short videos about their experiences of parenting.

Dishing on dinner: a life course approach to understanding the family meal context among families with preschoolers.

Objective: Family meals promote healthful dietary intake and well-being among children. Despite these benefits, family meal participation typically declines as children age. This study utilises life course theory to explore parents' perceptions of family meals in order to understand how parents' past experiences with family meals (in childhood and earlier in adulthood) influence their current beliefs and practices regarding mealtimes with their own children.