Alcoholism and timing of separation in parents: findings in a midwestern birth cohort.
- Authors
- Waldron, Mary; Bucholz, Kathleen K; Lynskey, Michael T; Madden, Pamela A F; Heath, Andrew C
- Year
- 2013
- Journal
- Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs
- PMID
- 23384382
- DOI
- 10.15288/jsad.2013.74.337
- PMCID
- PMC3568171
OBJECTIVE: We examined history of alcoholism and occurrence and timing of separation in parents of a female twin cohort. METHOD: Parental separation (never-together; never-married cohabitants who separated; married who separated) was predicted from maternal and paternal alcoholism in 326 African ancestry (AA) and 1,849 European/ other ancestry (EA) families. Broad (single-informant, reported in abstract) and narrow (self-report or two-informant) measures of alcoholism were compared. RESULTS: Parental separation was more common in families with parental alcoholism: By the time twins were 18 years of age, parents had separated in only 24% of EA families in which neither parent was alcoholic, contrasted with 58% of families in which only the father was (father-only), 61% of families in which only the mother was (mother-only), and 75% in which both parents were alcoholic (two-parent); corresponding AA percentages were 59%, 71%, 82%, and 86%, respectively. Maternal alcoholism was more common in EA nevertogether couples (mother-only: odds ratio [OR] = 5.95; two parent: OR = 3.69). In ever-together couples, alcoholism in either parent predicted elevated risk of separation, with half of EA relationships ending in separation within 12 years of twins' birth for father-only families, 9 years for mother-only families, and 4 years for both parents alcoholic; corresponding median survival times for AA couples were 9, 4, and 2 years, respectively. EA maternal alcoholism was especially strongly associated with separation in the early postnatal years (mother-only: birth-5 years, hazard ratio [HR] = 4.43; 6 years on, HR = 2.52; two-parent: HRs = 5.76, 3.68, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Parental separation is a childhood environmental exposure that is more common in children of alcoholics, with timing of separation highly dependent on alcoholic parent gender.
No figures extracted from this document.
No chunks — full text not yet ingested.
No entities extracted from this document yet.
No uploaded files.
No citations found.
In this knowledge base
External
| Title | Authors | Journal | Year | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Problematic parental substance use, childhood family structures and adverse outcomes in young adulthood. | Frederiksen KS et al. | — | 2023 | → |
| Educational attainment by children with parental alcohol problems in Denmark and Finland. | Raitasalo K et al. | — | 2021 | → |
| Estimating the number of children in households with substance use disorders in Germany. | Kraus L et al. | — | 2021 | → |
| Eating disorders in a community-based sample of women with alcohol use disorder and nicotine dependence. | Munn-Chernoff MA et al. | — | 2020 | → |
| Alcoholic family marital heterogeneity aggregates different child behavior problems both pre- and postseparation. | Ip KI et al. | — | 2019 | → |
| Childhood Trauma and Two Stages of Alcohol Use in African American and European American Women: Findings from a Female Twin Sample. | Sartor CE et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Clinical features associated with an increased risk for alcohol use disorders among family members. | Farmer RF et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Interactive Effects of Maternal Alcohol Problems and Parental Separation on Timing of Daughter's First Drink. | Waldron M et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Parental Divorce and Family History of Alcohol Disorder: Associations with Young Adults' Alcohol Problems, Marijuana Use, and Interpersonal Relations. | Windle M et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| The Impact of Traumatic Experiences on Risky Sexual Behaviors in Black and White Young Adult Women. | Werner KB et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| The utility of twins in developmental cognitive neuroscience research: How twins strengthen the ABCD research design. | Iacono WG et al. | — | 2018 | → |
| Interrelationship between family history of alcoholism and generational status in the prediction of alcohol dependence in US Hispanics. | Chartier KG et al. | — | 2017 | → |
| Phenotypic and familial associations between childhood maltreatment and cannabis initiation and problems in young adult European-American and African-American women. | Grant JD et al. | — | 2017 | → |
| Single Motherhood, Alcohol Dependence, and Smoking During Pregnancy: A Propensity Score Analysis. | Waldron M et al. | — | 2017 | → |
| The Influence of Paternal Separation, Paternal History of Alcohol Use Disorder Risk, and Early Substance Use on Offspring Educational Attainment by Young Adulthood. | Sadler BE et al. | — | 2017 | → |
| Association of Specific Traumatic Experiences With Alcohol Initiation and Transitions to Problem Use in European American and African American Women. | Werner KB et al. | — | 2016 | → |
| Brief Report: A web-based pilot study of childhood sexual abuse, recent stressful events, and alcohol use in women. | Sartor CE et al. | — | 2016 | → |
| Childhood sexual abuse and two stages of cigarette smoking in African-American and European-American young women. | Sartor CE et al. | — | 2016 | → |
| Differences in childhood physical abuse reporting and the association between CPA and alcohol use disorder in European American and African American women. | Werner KB et al. | — | 2016 | → |
| The association of specific traumatic experiences with cannabis initiation and transition to problem use: Differences between African-American and European-American women. | Werner KB et al. | — | 2016 | → |
| Are there common familial influences for major depressive disorder and an overeating-binge eating dimension in both European American and African American female twins? | Munn-Chernoff MA et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Associations between body mass index, post-traumatic stress disorder, and child maltreatment in young women. | Duncan AE et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Bulimic Behaviors and Early Substance Use: Findings from a Cotwin-Control Study. | Munn-Chernoff MA et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Differences Between African-American and European-American Women in the Association of Childhood Sexual Abuse With Initiation of Marijuana Use and Progression to Problem Use. | Sartor CE et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Genetic and environmental contributions to initiation of cigarette smoking in young African-American and European-American women. | Sartor CE et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Genetic overlap between alcohol use disorder and bulimic behaviors in European American and African American women. | Munn-Chernoff MA et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Parental separation, parental alcoholism, and timing of first sexual intercourse. | Waldron M et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Prevalence of and familial influences on purging disorder in a community sample of female twins. | Munn-Chernoff MA et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| The Association of Low Parental Monitoring With Early Substance Use in European American and African American Adolescent Girls. | Blustein EC et al. | — | 2015 | → |
| Alcohol dependence and reproductive timing in African and European ancestry women: findings in a midwestern twin cohort. | Waldron M et al. | — | 2014 | → |
| Genetic and environmental risk for major depression in African-American and European-American women. | Duncan AE et al. | — | 2014 | → |
| Human mate selection and addiction: a conceptual critique. | Heath AC et al. | — | 2014 | → |
| Parental separation and early substance involvement: results from children of alcoholic and cannabis dependent twins. | Waldron M et al. | — | 2014 | → |
| Risks for early substance involvement associated with parental alcoholism and parental separation in an adolescent female cohort. | Waldron M et al. | — | 2014 | → |
| Gut microbiota from twins discordant for obesity modulate metabolism in mice. | Ridaura VK et al. | — | 2013 | → |
| The long-term stability of the human gut microbiota. | Faith JJ et al. | — | 2013 | → |