, affection, warmth, and child-centerness the child feel from the parents, the less frequent the child will use marijuana. The greater the conflict is between the parents is associated with the childs more frequent use of marijuana. In regards to parenting variables, the greater the mother, father extreme autonomy or more lenient, the more frequent the child will use marijuana. It makes sense then to see that the more discipline the father reinforces, the less likely his child will use marijuana. Likewise, the greater the reinforcement of the mother, father rules, the less frequent the child will use marijuana. Especially the mother rules. It might be because of the fact that majority of the children resides with the mothers. With that said, we see that the more time the mother spent with the child is strongly related with less frequent adolescent marijuana use and the more time the father spent with the child will also help to reduce the frequency of childs marijuana usage. The same goes to mother similarity and parents emulation with mother having the strongest effect on the reduction of childs marijuana usage. Interactions of Father and Youth Risk-Protective Variables: A series of regression analyses was run in which a variable from one domain was entered first then a variable from another domain, followed by the interaction term (e.g., father AIDS status by one of the parenting variables). I will discuss only the significant interactions, p * 0.05, since the others will not provide any important information. In all cases, the dependent variable was the past year frequency of adolescent marijuana use. The first set of regression done was by taking father AIDS status and interacts with each of the parenting variables. Although the fathers AIDS status did not emerge as a significant main effect on the childs marijuana use, it did show significance in the presence of two other variables. The two significant interaction regression analys...
