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2002-04-00 |
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Acculturation; Adolescents; Generation Gap; Guns; Hispanic Americans; Immigrants; Neighborhoods; Parent Responsibility; Peer Influence; Socialization; Urban Areas; Violence
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This report presents the effect of immigration on family cohesion, specifically the relationship between parents and children. It draws on 5 years of fieldwork in one New York City immigrant community to describe how the generation gap separating immigrant adolescents from their parents, made wiser by the immigration process, leads these children to rely on violent peer groups for protection. The social development of 25 first and second generation immigrant adolescents, beginning in 7th grade is documented. Each year, observations were performed in the community and the middle school, students and parents were interviewed, and interviews in the Dominican Republic, the country of origin for most participants, were conducted. Results show that many of the parents were unprepared to guide their children through the dangers of their adopted U.S. neighborhoods, and the children therefore relied on neighborhood peers for socialization and protection. For many immigrant adolescents, adoption of violent behavior was a solution to physical threats they faced. Once they left their neighborhoods or the threats to safety disappeared, they generally ended their involvement with violent peers. (Contains 38 references.) (SM)
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2001-07-00 |
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Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Research |
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Adolescent Behavior; Adolescents; Generation Gap; Marijuana; Parent Child Relationship; Parent Influence; Parent Role; Predictor Variables; Tables (Data)
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This report uses the 1979-1996 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse to investigate the role of parents, especially members of the baby boom generation, on the marijuana use of children. The association of marijuana use between parents and children, the differences among parental birth cohorts, and the determinants of child marijuana use are investigated. Five major research goals are addressed: develop a strategy to define parental exposure to the marijuana epidemic; assess the strength of the association between parental and child marijuana use according to pattern and extensiveness of use, by sex of parent, and age, sex and ethnicity of child; assess the impact of membership in the baby boom generation and parental exposure to the marijuana epidemic on child marijuana use; determine the unique influence of parental marijuana use on the child's marijuana use; identify important predictors of marijuana use by young people in addition to parental marijuana use. The report addresses the research goals outlined above through descriptive and multivariate analyses. The Technical Appendix provides details about the construction of the drug use and other selected variables. Appendix tables present survey-specific data for the multiple surveys that are aggregated in most of the tables presented in the main body of the report. (Contains approximately 76 references, 50 tables, and 15 figures.)(GCP)
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