Transient Domesticity and Drugs: Ethnography Informs a Nationwide Analysis

描述（由申请人提供）：这项申请进一步研究了毒品对城市内非洲裔美国家庭家庭关系的影响，并通过人口统计分析将这项工作扩展到全国。毒品与许多社会问题有牵连。最近的人种学研究已经确定了它们与内城不稳定的男女伴侣关系（或短暂的家庭生活）的联系。家庭是儿童发展的基石。了解和处理造成伙伴关系不稳定的因素可以改善家庭功能，从而改善这些家庭中儿童的生活机会。由于缺乏对这种行为的丰富的概念理解以及可用数据的限制，先前的人口统计学研究没有分析这种现象。2001年的收入和计划参与调查（SIPP）小组调查大大改善了家庭关系数据，SIPP是人口普查局在四年中跟踪调查的具有全国代表性的大型家庭样本。作为对最新审稿人评论的回应，第二次重新提交提供了关于如何完成每个任务的更详细的信息，并对任务进行了更清晰的解释和集成。本研究有两个目的：目的a .利用专门开发的调查模块分析非法药物对伙伴关系的影响。目的b：使用一个具有全国代表性的样本（SIPP）来衡量与短暂家庭生活相关的伴侣模式不同于（或类似于）那些更富裕、城市较少、非裔美国人以及纽约市以外的群体的普遍模式的程度。在研究过程中，该项目将开发和实施SIPP药物模块。目前参加人种学研究的100多名受试者的回答将创建一个人行横道，支持正在进行的人种学工作的结果与人口分析专业人员进行三角测量。公共健康相关性：最近的人种学研究已经确定了药物与内城不稳定的男女伴侣关系之间的联系，我们将这种现象称为短暂的家庭生活。不稳定的市中心家庭给国家的医疗保健、社会服务和刑事司法系统带来了不成比例的负担。此外，这些贫困家庭是公共卫生和其他社会问题不断出现的主要场所，后代将被社会化以再现这些问题。拟议的项目将提供全国范围内临时家庭生活普遍程度的初步迹象；识别不同种族/民族、城市化程度和经济环境的差异；并对吸毒可能涉及的程度提出质疑。最重要的是，该项目将开发和试点测试SIPP药物模块，该模块在全国范围内部署后，可以明确衡量药物与短暂家庭生活之间的关系。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application furthers ongoing research into the impact of drugs on domestic relationships in inner-city African American households and extends that work nationwide using demographic analyses. Drugs have been implicated in numerous social problems. Recent ethnographic research has identified their linkage to unstable female-male partnering (or transient domesticity) in the inner city. The family is the bedrock for child development. Understanding and addressing factors contributing to partnership instability could improve household functioning and thereby improve the life chances of children in these families. Prior demographic research has not analyzed this phenomenon due to a lack of a rich conceptual understanding of the behavior and due to limitations of available data. Data on household relationships were greatly improved with the 2001 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), a large nationally representative sample of households followed over four years by the Census Bureau. In response to the latest reviewer comments, this second resubmission provides greater detail as to how each task will be completed and a clearer explanation and integration of the tasks. This study has two aims: AIM A. To analyze the impact that illicit drugs have on partnership relationships using a specially developed survey module. AIM B. To measure the extent that the partnering patterns associated with transient domesticity differ from (or are similar to) those prevailing among groups that are wealthier, less urban, not African American, and beyond New York City, using a nationally-representative sample (the SIPP). In the course of the study, the project will develop and field a SIPP Drugs Module. Responses by over 100 subjects currently enrolled in an ethnographic study will create a crosswalk supporting triangulation of findings from ongoing ethnographic work with the demographic analyses pro. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Recent ethnographic research has identified a linkage between drugs and unstable female-male partnering in the inner city, a phenomenon we refer to as transient domesticity. Unstable inner-city households disproportionately burden the nation's health care, social service, and criminal justice systems. Moreover, these distressed households are a primary location in which public health and other social problems continuously arise and where future generations will be socialized to reproduce these problems. The proposed project will provide initial indications of the prevalence of transient domesticity across the nation; identify the variation with race/ethnicity, urbanicity and economic circumstances; and raise questions about the extent that drug use may be involved. Most importantly, the project will develop and pilot test a SIPP Drugs Module that when fielded nationwide could explicitly measure the relationship between drugs and transient domesticity. This research should prove central to understanding the nature, location and extent of the problem possibly leading to tracking improvements in the future.