Food for thought: Do family meals really make a difference for child academics or behavior?

Food for thought: Do family meals really make a difference for child academics or behavior?: Despite popular wisdom and findings from much previous research that suggests the beneficial impact of family mealtime, a rigorous analysis of 21,400 children, ages five to 15, brings a new argument to the table: When researchers controlled for a host of confounding factors, they didn’t find any relationship between family meals and child academic outcomes or behavior.