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How couples address body image modeling for daughters

My daughter is struggling with her body image and eating, and my wife keeps making comments about her own weight and food choices that I think are making things worse, but when I bring it up she says I don't understand the pressure women face.

The deeper question

Parents unknowingly perpetuate harmful relationships with food and bodies while trying to protect their daughters from the same struggles.

Concept: unconscious transmission

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