Parental Psychiatric Illness, Broken Homes, and Delinquency

Offord, David R.; Allen, Nancy C.; Abrams, Nola

doi:10.1016/s0002-7138(10)60088-x

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“…The girls in our study more often had a number of physical complaints for which there was no apparent basis and had more often injured themselves than the boys, observations that fit well with Robins' (1966) finding that aggressive girls tend to have hysteria (somatization disorder) in adult life. Our finding that many of the girls had a step-father in their home parallels the observation of Offord et al (1979) on the families of delinquent adolescent girls.…”

Section: Age On Admissionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Aggressive Conduct Disorder: The Influence of Social Class, Sex and Age on the Clinical Picture

Béhar

Stewart

1984

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Past studies have shown that aggressive conduct disorder is more common in boys and in families of low socioeconomic status, and that affected children are usually seen in child psychiatry clinics before the age of 10. In this work we aimed to find how socioeconomic status, sex and age at admission influence the clinical picture of this disorder. We divided a series of 58 affected children into two groups on each of the three factors and compared the groups on 175 variables. We found little evidence that the children's difficulties varied with social class, sex or age. This apparent constancy of the clinical picture reinforces the idea that aggressive conduct disorder is a valid, though broadly defined, psychiatric syndrome.

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Section: Age On Admissionsupporting

confidence: 82%

Aggressive Conduct Disorder: The Influence of Social Class, Sex and Age on the Clinical Picture

Béhar

Stewart

1984

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…A clearly testable hypothesis would be that aggression and conduct disorder in children in “alcohol only” home environments would be predicted when parental alcoholism is accompanied by other known or suspected mediators of a child's development of aggression or conduct disorder (e.g., family discord, 32 paternal criminality or antisocial behavior, 33 poor parenting practices, 34,35 parental psychiatric illness, 36 child abuse/ maltreatment 37 ) and to a much less degree by parental alcoholism itself. Defining the independent variable in studies of children of alcoholic individuals to control for other parental substances of abuse is crucial.…”

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Parental Substance Abuse and Its Relationship to Severe Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Youth

Gabel¹,

Shindledecker²

1993

American J Addict

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Research concerning hypothesized relationships between parental alcoholism and conduct problems in their children has had mixed findings. In this study, general and specific aspects of a possible relationship between a history of parental substance abuse (a category including parental alcohol abuse and parental abuse of other substances) with antisocial behavior and severe aggressive/destructive behavior was studied by reviewing preadmission variables in a large group of hospital‐treated children and adolescents. The results indicated that various categories of more specifically defined parental substance abuse (e.g., substance abuse in fathers) were related to severe aggressive/destructive behavior and/or conduct disorder in their children. Parental abuse of nonalcohol substances appears to be more important than parental alcohol abuse in predicting severe aggressive and antisocial behavior. Substance abuse in fathers, especially abuse of substances other than alcohol, also seems more important than substance abuse in mothers in predicting severe aggression and conduct disorder.

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“…The findings of studies between 1975 and 1985 reviewed by West and Prinz (1987) indicate that paternal alcoholism is related to a host of problems in children, including externalizing behavior problems such as hyperactivity and conduct disorder (e.g., Fine, Yudin, Holmes, & Heinemann, 1976; Knop, Teasdale, Schulsinger, & Goodwin, 1985), alcohol/substance abuse (e.g., Herjanic, Herjanic, Penick, Tomelleri, & Armbruster, 1977; Merikangas, Weissman, Prusoff, Pauls, & Leckman, 1985), and delinquency (e.g., Offord, Allen, & Abrams, 1978; Rimmer, 1982) and symptoms of internalizing problems such as depression and anxiety (e.g., Herjanic et al, 1977).…”

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The role of fathers in child and adolescent psychopathology: Make room for daddy.

Phares¹,

Compas²

1992

Psychological Bulletin

447

360

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This review summarizes research concerning the relation between paternal factors and child and adolescent psychopathology. When compared with mothers, fathers continue to be dramatically underrepresented in developmental research on psychopathology. However, findings from studies of children of clinically referred fathers and nonreferred samples of children and their fathers indicate that there is substantial association between paternal characteristics and child and adolescent psychopathology. Findings from studies of fathers of clinically referred children are stronger for fathers' effects on children's externalizing than internalizing problems. In most cases the degree of risk associated with paternal psychopathology is comparable to that associated with maternal psychopathology. Evidence indicates that the presence of paternal psychopathology is a sufficient but not necessary condition for child or adolescent psychopathology.

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Parental Psychiatric Illness, Broken Homes, and Delinquency

Cited by 42 publications

References 15 publications

Aggressive Conduct Disorder: The Influence of Social Class, Sex and Age on the Clinical Picture

Aggressive Conduct Disorder: The Influence of Social Class, Sex and Age on the Clinical Picture

Parental Substance Abuse and Its Relationship to Severe Aggression and Antisocial Behavior in Youth

The role of fathers in child and adolescent psychopathology: Make room for daddy.

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