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- Title
African American and White Mothers' Substance Abuse, Depression, and Criminality as Risk Factors for School Suspension.
- Authors
Smith-McKeever, Chedgzsey; Weihua Gao
- Abstract
School social workers are often responsible for developing and implementing programs to prevent school suspension, particularly for African American students, who are overrepresented among all students suspended. This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey to examine the relative roles of maternal substance and alcohol abuse, depression, criminality, race, sex, and socioeconomic status in whether a student is suspended from school. Results indicate that primarily race and a mother's marital status contribute to suspensions. However, other factors such as maternal depression, marijuana or hashish use, and having been charged with an illegal act also predict a student's suspension from school. We encourage school social workers to expand their conceptualization of the role of race in school suspensions to include these maternal factors when developing programs to reduce school suspensions.
- Subjects
AFRICAN American mothers; MENTAL depression; STUDENT suspension; PARENTAL influences; PARENT-child relationships; ALCOHOL &; parents; SUBSTANCE abuse
- Publication
School Social Work Journal (Follmer Group), 2010, Vol 34, Issue 2, p18
- ISSN
0161-5653
- Publication type
Article