Substance-Abusing Fathers: Descriptive, Process and Methodological Perspectives
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Emotional and behavioral problems of children living with drug-abusing fathers: comparisons with children living with alcohol-abusing and non-substance-abusing fathers.
Although the effects of paternal alcoholism on the psychosocial adjustment of children are well documented, the impact of fathers' illicit drug abuse on their children is poorly understood. The purpose of this study was to compare the adjustment of children living in families with drug-abusing fathers (n = 40) with that of children with fathers who abused alcohol (n = 40) and children with non-...
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عنوان ژورنال: Addiction
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0965-2140
DOI: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.2002.00234.x