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Behavior problems in sons and daughters of substance abusing parents

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Information to address the question of whether sex specific features exist in behavioral characteristics of children of substance abusing parents was gathered from the records of a large number of hospital treated youth. There was a trend for sons of substance abusing parents to have more conduct disorder diagnoses in association with severe aggressive/destructive behavior than sons of non substance abusing parents. Girls of substance abusing parents generally were more likely to have attention deficit/hyperactive, aggressive and conduct disorder problems than girls of non substance abusing parents.

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  1. Westchester Division, Children's Day Hospital, The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, 21 Bloomingdale Road, 10605, White Plains, NY

    Stewart Gabel MD (Unit Chief)

  2. Cornell University Medical College, USA

    Stewart Gabel MD (Unit Chief)

  3. St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center, USA

    Richard Shindledecker MA

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Gabel, S., Shindledecker, R. Behavior problems in sons and daughters of substance abusing parents. Child Psych Hum Dev 23, 99–115 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00709753

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