Sex, Violence, and Drugs Among Latin American and Caribbean Adolescents: Do Engaged Parents Make a Difference?

Inder Ruprah (), Ricardo Sierra and Heather Sutton

No 7557, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper uses data from the Global School-based Student Health Survey toinvestigate the prevalence of health risk behaviors, in particular substance use, risky sexual behavior, and violence among adolescents in 15 Latin American and Caribbean countries. Using logit regressions and meta-analysis, we find that having parents engaged in raising their children is associated with significantly reduced problem behaviors in adolescents. That said, in the Caribbean the prevalence of health risk behaviors in adolescents is higher and engaged parents is lower than in Latin America, and the correlation between engaged parenting and reduced risk behaviors is generally weaker. Nonetheless, for both subgroups of countries, engaged parents do appear to make a difference.

Keywords: alcohol abuse; drug abuse; sexual behavior; engaged parents; juvenile delinquency; violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I12 I18 I20 J13 O54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-04
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