Community‐Level Exposure to the Rural Mining Industry: The Potential Influence on Early Adolescent Alcohol and Tobacco Use

Abstract

Our findings demonstrate rural-urban disparities in adolescent substance use that are particularly pronounced among youth living in counties with economic dependence on mining. Future research on this subject should include a wider range of community-level factors that may have specific relevance in rural settings to inform the development of population-level interventions.

Review of Recent Research about Parenting Generation Z Pre-Teen Children

“…Second, many studies are oriented from the children's perspective. For instance, some researchers view "parenting" as an independent variable acting on the "child," while the actor, namely the "parent," is often not an explicit part of the research study (Dickter et al, 2018;Gay et al, 2018;Hunt et al, 2017;Lippold et al, 2013). Research studies that place children as subjects and parenting as a mediator may fail to fully explore the parents' perspective of parenting.…”