Heavy Alcohol Use, Alcohol and Drug Screening and their Relationship to Mothers' Welfare Participation

A Temporal-ordered Causal Analysis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2115202
AutoresTyrone C Cheng (0000-0002-2335-1677, University of Alabama), Celia C Lo (0000-0002-5785-6622, University of Alabama)
Año2010
Volumen39
Número4
Páginas543-559
Fecha de publicación2010-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0047-2794 • E-ISSN: 1469-7823
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s004727941000022x
OpenAlexW2146869482
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas40

This longitudinal study examined the association between heavy alcohol use, alcohol- and drug-screening requirements, and social support network variables and mothers' welfare participation in the United States. The study was a secondary data analysis of 3,517 mothers. The sample was extracted from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data gathered in 1994-2004. Results of logistic regression show welfare participation is not associated with heavy alcohol use or alcohol- and drug-screening requirements, but is associated with a history of reported heavy alcohol use, informal help with childcare, and scant human capital. Results also indicate that alcohol- and drug screening required under TANF may not exclude heavy drinking mothers from TANF participation, and that social support networks do not cancel heavy drinking's association with participation. Policy implications are discussed

Alcohol · Association (psychology) · Demographic economics · Drug · Economics · Environmental health · Heavy drinking · Logistic regression · Longitudinal study · National Longitudinal Surveys · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Welfare · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Homelessness and Social Issues · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Medicine · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies