es are: Father AIDS Status by Father Child-centerness and Father AIDS Status by Time Spent with Mother. In the case that the father does not have AIDS, the effectiveness of father child-centerness (high or low), would not make a big difference in the adolescent marijuana use. If the father has AIDS and is accompanied by low father child-centerness, we have a risk/risk interaction and the adolescent marijuana use is very high. However, if father child-centerness is high, then it buffers some of the risks to the adolescent marijuana use posed by the father having AIDS. The same result is shown in the interaction of father AIDS status by mother time spent with child. When the father has AIDS, and the mother spends little time with the child, then the frequency of child marijuana usage is high, where as it would be buffered by mother spending more time with the child. The combined presence of these variables as risk/risk interactions was more strongly associated with frequent marijuana use than each of these variables considered alone. The next set of regression was done by interacting the gender of the child with each of the parenting variables to predict the adolescent marijuana usage. The significant ones are: Sex by Mother Identification, Sex by Father Extreme Autonomy, Sex by Mother Extreme Autonomy, and Sex by Mother Time Spent. In all cases, male child marijuana usage in greater than female. For both male and female, if the child identified weakly with the mother, marijuana use for the child increase (male using more than female). The more lenient the father is, the more marijuana use for the male child is affected. Females not affected by as greatly as male. The same goes for lenient mothers. Both male and female are affected by the time spent with mother. The less time mother spent with the children, the more highly used the marijuana with males being affected more than females. Another set of interaction regression was also conduc...
