| This study investigated the extent to which sons and daughters in two-parent and female-headed households differed regarding (a) the independent effects of rural-urban location, household income, parental education, work status, religious affiliation, number of coresident children, and child's age; and (b) the independent and mediating role played by exercise status. In two-parent households, statistically significant effects were mostly evident among daughters only. Exercise status also had a statistically significant effect among daughters but not sons. However, exercise status did not play a major mediating role for either sons or daughters. In the female-headed household, the only statistically significant effect involved location and then only for daughters. |
