Parent Education and Future Transition to Cigarette Smoking: Latinos' Diminished Returns

Background: High parent education is protective against youth health risk behaviors such as tobacco use. According to the Minorities' Diminished Returns theory, however, higher parent education seems to exert less protection for the ethnic minority relative to the majority groups.Objectives: To...

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Main Authors: Shervin Assari, Shanika Boyce, Cleopatra H. Caldwell, Mohsen Bazargan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Pediatrics
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fped.2020.00457/full