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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2015 Feb 20;172(6):553–560. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2014.14091127

TABLE 5.

Parent-Offspring Associations Between Drug Abuse, Alcohol Use Disorders, and Criminal Behavior as Measured by Hazard Ratios in Mothers Compared With Fathers From Intact Families, in Not-Lived-With Mothers Compared With Fathers, and in Stepmothers Compared With Fathers

Parent Outcome in Offspring
Drug Abuse
Alcohol Use Disorders
Criminal Behavior
Hazard Ratio or p 95% CI Hazard Ratio or p 95% CI Hazard Ratio or p 95% CI
Mother from intact family (N=2,111,074) 3.28 3.05, 3.52 2.53 2.41, 2.66 1.91 1.87, 1.95
Father from intact family (N=2,111,074) 3.77 3.51, 4.06 2.41 2.33, 2.49 1.97 1.94, 2.00
Heterogeneity test p=0.008 p=0.11 p=0.02
Not-lived-with mother (N=10,194) 2.70 2.23, 3.26 1.90 1.60, 2.25 1.58 1.45, 1.72
Not-lived-with father (N=113,761) 2.72 2.58, 2.88 1.81 1.73, 1.89 1.50 1.46, 1.53
Heterogeneity test p=0.94 p=0.59 p=0.24
Stepmother (N=18,359) 1.68 1.12, 2.52 1.36 1.18, 1.57 1.35 1.28, 1.43
Stepfather (N=65,803) 1.74 1.43, 2.16 1.22 1.10, 1.35 1.27 1.22, 1.33
Heterogeneity test p=0.87 p=0.23 p=0.10