Examining the relationship between marijuana use, medical marijuana dispensaries, and abusive and neglectful parenting
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The current study extends previous research by examining whether and how current marijuana use and the physical availability of marijuana are related to child physical abuse, supervisory neglect, or physical neglect by parents while controlling for child, caregiver, and family characteristics in a general population survey in California. Individual level data on marijuana use and abusive and neglectful parenting were collected during a telephone survey of 3,023 respondents living in 50 mid-size cities in California. Medical marijuana dispensaries and delivery services data were obtained via six websites and official city lists. Data were analyzed using negative binomial and linear mixed effects multilevel models with individuals nested within cities. Current marijuana use was positively related to frequency of child physical abuse and negatively related to physical neglect. There was no relationship between supervisory neglect and marijuana use. Density of medical marijuana dispensaries and delivery services was positively related to frequency of physical abuse. As marijuana use becomes more prevalent, those who work with families, including child welfare workers must screen for how marijuana use may affect a parent's ability to provide for care for their children, particularly related to physical abuse.
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Parents with a history of childhood adversity are at risk of developing problematic parenting behavior in relation to their offspring, including child abuse and neglect.
“Parents with a history of childhood adversity are at risk of developing problematic parenting behavior in relation to their offspring, including child abuse and neglect (87–89).”
From Mothering, Substance Use Disorders and Intergenerational Trauma Transmission: An Attachment-Based Perspective (2019) · cites this paper as [87]
The Introduction discusses parents’ substance use problems as a risk factor for child abuse and neglect, and the Discussion examines marijuana use and parenting outcomes. Neither passage addresses whether parents’ own childhood adversity predicts abusive or neglectful parenting; searches for childhood adversity and parents’ histories of childhood maltreatment found no such passage. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.76)
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- Authors
- Freisthler, B., Gruenewald, P. J., & Wolf, J. P.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Pacific Institute For Research and Evaluation (US)
- Corresponding author
- Freisthler, Bridget
- Venue
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-10
- Volume
- 48
- Pages
- 170-178
- ISSN
- 0145-2134 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4593739
- OpenAlex
- W894610339
- Cited by
- 58
- References
- 3
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 5.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Child Abuse & Neglect (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (R01-DA032715)
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA032715)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Child Welfare and Adoption
- Keywords
- cannabis use, medical marijuana dispensaries, child physical abuse, child neglect, supervisory neglect, parenting, California
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, California, Marijuana Abuse, Child, Child Abuse, Child, Preschool, Depression, Female, Humans, Infant, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Linear Models, Parenting, Internet, Young Adult, Medical Marijuana
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