Behavior Problems in Sons and Daughters of Substance Abusing Parents

Overview

Journal Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

Specialties Pediatrics
Psychiatry

Date 1992 Jan 1

PMID 1490400

Citations 1

Authors

S Gabel

R Shindledecker

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Abstract

Information to address the question of whether sex specific features exist in behavioral characteristics of children of substance abusing parents was gathered from the records of a large number of hospital treated youth. There was a trend for sons of substance abusing parents to have more conduct disorder diagnoses in association with severe aggressive/destructive behavior than sons of non substance abusing parents. Girls of substance abusing parents generally were more likely to have attention deficit/hyperactive, aggressive and conduct disorder problems than girls of non substance abusing parents.

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