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Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the attitudes and behaviors of parents with different socioeconomic conditions regarding their children’s body weight and eating behaviors. Individuals and Methods: 632 children between the ages of 6 and 10 who were educated in primary schools in different socio-economic situations (men = 299, 47.3 percent, girls = 333, 52.7 percent) and 441, 69.8 percent of mothers and 191, 30.2 percent of fathers between the ages of 23 and 56 participated in the study. Anthropometric measurements of children have been taken, parents have been applied child nutrition survey. The influence of the behavior of parents to feed their children on the anthropometric measurements of children has been assessed. The average age (±S) is 34.3±5.21 years in mothers and 36.9±5.13 years in fathers. There is a difference between the body mass index (BMI) groups of children and the parent's child nutrition survey's subfactors, "the body weight of the parent", "the body weight of the child" and "the body weight of the parent". The number of parents in different socio-economic situations increased, and the number of parents in their children increased. Result: Parents should be taught about cooking healthy foods, eating healthy foods, eating children at certain intervals.

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