La paternité dans un contexte de consommation maternelle abusive d’alcool et de drogues

Abstract

Malgré un nombre important d’études relatives à la thématique Parentalité alcool et drogue, le rôle du partenaire/père des mères consommatrices a été négligé. Le matériel présenté dans cet article est tiré d’une étude qualitative québécoise menée auprès de 20 pères et de 20 parturientes consommatrices abusives de SPA rencontrés à deux moments. Le but est de présenter le profil sociodémographique des parents, la consommation des mères dans les mois précédant la naissance de l’enfant, la consommation passée et actuelle des pères ainsi que certains éléments-clés de l’expérience parentale et conjugale des pères en contexte de consommation maternelle et de la trajectoire de consommation parentale.Despite a significant number of studies dealing with the theme of Parenthood, alcohol and drugs, the role of the paternal partner of consumer mothers has been neglected. The material presented in this article is taken from a Quebec qualitative study involving twenty fathers and twenty parturients with psychoactive substance abuse problems, and covers meetings with them at two different times. Our objective is to provide a sociodemographic profile of the parents, of maternal consumption in the pre-natal months, of previous and current paternal consumption levels, together with a number of key elements associated with the parental and conjugal experience of the fathers, both in the context of maternal consumption and of the parental consumer pattern

“Depends on the Father”: Defining Problematic Paternal Substance Use During Pregnancy and Early Parenthood

“…Additionally, and reinforcing other research, a father's substance use was considered a predictor of ongoing and/or future substance use problems for both his partner (Morissette et al 2009;Riehman et al 2008;Rivaux et al 2008;Simmons 2006;Simmons and Singer 2006;Torchalla et al 2015) and children (Dieck 2013;Hussong et al 2012). Sandra said:…”

“…It follows that in the discourses around prenatal substance exposure, men are consistently underrepresented (McMahon and Rounsaville 2002;McMahon et al 2007;Morissette et al 2009;Söderström and Skåderud 2013;Twomey 2007) and fathers remain generally excluded from harm reduction efforts (Weaver 2013). This is the case despite growing evidence that children with substance-abusing fathers are at increased risk of health and behavioural problems even if the father is absent (Osborne and Berger 2009).…”