In the course of providing health care services to children, pediatricians often encounter
families affected by substance use, distribution, manufacturing, or cultivation that ultimately …

Violence within families and child neglect are strikingly common: 700,000 children are found
to be victims of abuse or neglect in the United States each year; over the course of …

Although policymakers and law enforcement officials argue that medical marijuana laws
(MMLs)“send the wrong message” to young people, previous studies have produced no …

In this paper we estimate the effects of expanding access to substance-abuse treatment on
local crime. We do so using an identification strategy that leverages variation driven by …

Anecdotal evidence suggests that recent rises in foster care caseloads are due to increasing
parental substance use, particularly misuse of opioids. This study tests the association …

Child maltreatment is a complex problem affecting millions of children in the United States
every year. This article examines existing knowledge on the scope, nature, and causes of …

Children's indirect exposure to the justice system through biological parents or coresident
adults is both a marker of their own vulnerability and a measure of the justice system's …

A critical aspect of the opioid epidemic is its effect on the ability of opioid-dependent parents
to care for their children. In this article we investigate the association between the rate of …

Child maltreatment has significant and long-lasting consequences. We examine how two
interventions designed to curtail prescription opioid misuse, the reformulation of OxyContin …

Social scientists have long been concerned about how the fortunes of parents affect their
children, with acute interest in the most marginalized children. Yet little sociological research …