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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 12 June 2014 07:50:54PM 4 points [-]

It may also be a matter of convenience for the parents-- if you let the child stop eating when they feel like it, they might be hungry in a half an hour, when you were hoping to do something else.

I'd want to see some cross-cultural work on how much parents control the amount small children eat.