Do children of lone parents smoke more because their mothers do?
- 1 November 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in British Journal of Addiction
- Vol. 85 (11) , 1497-1500
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1360-0443.1990.tb01635.x
Abstract
This short report examines the association between smoking behaviours of mothers and their 15 year old children, and whether there is a difference between families headed by a mother living alone or with a partner. It is based on data collected from a cohort of young people and their mothers (N=967), resident in the West of Scotland. We found no evidence that children of lone mothers smoke more because their mothers do; the familial transmission of smoking behaviour, at 15, appeared to be less apparent in households headed by lone than cohabiting mothers.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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