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UK: Child drug use linked to failed marriages
Nic Fleming and Bob Osman The Telegraph
Friday 07 Apr 2006 Children whose mothers get divorced or separate from their fathers are substantially more likely to have tried cannabis by the age of 15, according to new research. Australian researchers who studied more than 3,000 families found that the more times women split up, divorced or had new partners while their children were very young or in early adolescence, the more likely it was that the youngsters would use the drug. Those whose mothers had one or two changes of marital status while they were aged five to 14 were 70 per cent more likely than those in stable families to have used cannabis. A mother having had three or more separations, divorces or new partners was associated with a 130 per cent increase in the chance of her children trying the drug. The study, published online in the International Journal of Epidemiology, supports previous research showing that children in unstable family environments are more likely to use illicit drugs. The lead researcher, Mohammed Hayatbakhsh of the School of Population Health at the University of Queensland, said the frequency of changes in maternal marital status were more significant than marital status itself in predicting a child's drug use. "The more changes in maternal marital status, the more likely the child was to try cannabis," he added.
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