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Do children of lone parents smoke more because their mothers do?
Author(s) -
GREEN GILL,
MACINTYRE SALLY,
WEST PATRICK,
ECOB RUSSELL
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb01635.x
Subject(s) - demography , smoke , cohort , psychology , developmental psychology , medicine , geography , sociology , meteorology
This short report examines the association between smoking behaviours of mothers and their 15 year old children, and whether there is a difference between families headed by a mother living alone or with a partner. It is based on data collected from a cohort of young people and their mothers (N=967), resident in the West of Scotland. We found no evidence that children of lone mothers smoke more because their mothers do; the familial transmission of smoking behaviour, at 15, appeared to be less apparent in households headed by lone than cohabiting mothers.