Mo' Re$earch

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A mother's drug use may have far-reaching consequences, eventually affecting the self-esteem of her grandchildren, new research suggests.

The findings are based on interviews with 149 New York City children ages 7 to 12, their mothers and grandmothers. The researchers found that when grandmothers had a history of drug abuse, their daughters tended to have more conflicts with and negative feelings toward their own children.

Dr. Judith S. Brook of New York University School of Medicine led the research.

The findings suggest that poor parenting skills are being passed down through the generations of drug-affected families, according to Brook's team.

---- You needn't spend money to suggest that drugs effect families, or that parenting skills are passed from generation to generation. Isn't that pretty much common knowledge? Has there been a massive influx of mental retardation in American research circles? do educated people find this drivel useful? Is there a sociologist somewhere after reading Dr. Brook, exclaiming, aha! drug abuse does fluck up the family!

This is what NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) considers appropriate research in the war on drug abuse. It's welfare for the affluent, i.e. Ms. Brook has spent a lifetime on the dole as a grantee/mentor/researcher in government funded $tudies, ($700,000+ for the above "study").

This is the above report as published in Pediatrics/Feb 2007. Scroll down for the doctors' FIGURE 1 of the "hypothesized pathways of the 3-generation SEM." Slightly less complicated than my granddaughter's last minute 8th grade science fair project, (the effects of food dye on white carnations) - total cost $16.49.