ABSTRACT

This chapter discusses the fathers' impact on their daughters' marijuana use is presented viewed in the context of the mother and the daughters' peer group. The findings underscore the importance of identifying those paternal factors that exert an influence on the daughters' marijuana use alone or in combination with other interpersonal factors. The chapter explores two processes that involved in father-child relations: identification and positive and negative reinforcement. Students of adolescence have noted that during this stage of the life cycle youngsters become less attached to their parents and more attached to peers. The data relevant to the interrelationship of father and mother domains supported an independent model, with father factors remaining relatively independent of maternal factors in their effect on the daughter's marijuana use. The individual father factors in combination with certain peer group factors also seemed to have a direct impact on the daughter's drug use.