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Article: Childhood Family, Ethnicity, and Drug Use Over the Life Course
- Article from:
- Journal of Marriage and Family
- Article date:
- August 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Blackwell Publishing Aug 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Using multiply imputed data from 5 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (N = 8,294), we investigated whether childhood family characteristics and childhood religious affiliation explain ethnic differences in marijuana and cocaine use in the last year. None of the childhood factors e
xplained ethnic differences in drug use, though ethnicity and several childhood factors had age-specific effects. Over the life course from young adulthood to middle age, ethnic differences in drug use changed and the effect of childhood religious affiliation declined. Having a more intellectually rich family in childhood increased the risk of drug use at younger ages but reduced it at older ages. ...