THE INVOLVEMENT OF FATHER To GIVE NUTRITIOUS FOOD TO CHILDREN

Abstract

The under-five children age was a nutritionally vulnerable group. Therefore they required treatment include physical cared with the provision of nutritious food, especially from the father and mother. The purpose of this research was to know the involvement of the father in given nutritious food to under five children Mojokerto District. The research design was descriptive. The population was all fathers who have under five children as many as 60 people taken entirely as a sample by using total sampling. The research variable was father's involvement in giving nutritious food to children. Data analysis use percentage.The results showed that most of the father's involvement in nutritious food feeding on under-five children was not good as much as 36 people (60,5%). This was motivated by the status of the father who worked as an entrepreneur or not working, elementary education, 36-60-month-old children and male sex, and working mothers.A time-consuming job as an entrepreneur plus a basic education leads children to maybe financially fulfilled but less good in emotional and behavior involvement. Moreover, the status of unemployment and basic education leads to poor financial and emotional support and behavior 36-60 months of age and male sex was an active child and tend to be closer to the mother, so the father was less involved. Similarly, the status of working mothers did not make the father more involved, because the father tends to require him to work that sacrifice togetherness with children.