Prior research documents recurring patterns of adult black men residing for short periods in poor female-headed households, but little is known about such domestic arrangements. These transient male-female relationships temporarily structure family life. However, the transience as well as violence and drug use involved in these relationships often have serious consequences regarding safety and family functioning within already severely-distressed households. This five year study will examine the impacts of transient domesticity and violence in severely distressed black inner city households where drug use and/or sales are prominent.
AIM A. (Domestic arrangements) To analyze the changes in economic, sexual and social relationships and roles of various adult black men in distressed female-headed households.
AIM B. (Violence) To analyze the contexts and processes leading to episodes of aggression and violence among an adult couple and document episodes where drugs and violence co-occur and how these are related to transitions in male residence.
AIM C. (Modeling) To analyze how transient domesticity provides models that potentially affect transmission of subcultural norms. Project staff will recruit 100 black focal subjects (50 females and 50 males) initially living with a partner of the opposite sex. Using an omnibus longitudinal ethnographic methodology these 100 subjects will be intensively interviewed three times a year and their (often changed) household arrangements observed regularly during the five year project. Focal males will be followed over their different domestic arrangements. Others (residential mates, adult kin, adolescents, children) with whom the focal subjects live will be surveyed. A comprehensive publication agenda will document the duration of residential stays, household composition and functioning, drug use/sale, violence, fictive fathering, mentoring, HIV/AIDS, and many other topics.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DA009056-10
Application #
6806521
Study Section
Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior Integrated Review Group (RPHB)
Program Officer
Chambers, Jessica Campbell
Project Start
2003-09-30
Project End
2008-06-30
Budget Start
2004-07-01
Budget End
2005-06-30
Support Year
10
Fiscal Year
2004
Total Cost
$577,914
Indirect Cost
Name
National Development & Research Institutes
Department
Type
DUNS #
080481880
City
New York
State
NY
Country
United States
Zip Code
10010
Dunlap, Eloise; Brown, Emma J (2016) Drug Use and Spatial Dynamics of Household Allocation. J Addict Res Ther 7:
Golub, Andrew; Reid, Megan; Strickler, Jennifer et al. (2013) Cohabitation Duration and Transient Domesticity. Marriage Fam Rev 49:
Wolfe, Hannah; Haller, Deborah L; Benoit, Ellen et al. (2013) Developing PeerLink to engage out-of-care HIV+ substance users: training peers to deliver a peer-led motivational intervention with fidelity. AIDS Care 25:888-94
Golub, Andrew; Strickler, Jennifer; Dunlap, Eloise (2012) Towards Improving Surveys of Living Arrangements among Poor African Americans. J Comp Fam Stud 43:
Windsor, Liliane Cambraia; Dunlap, Eloise; Armour, Marilyn (2012) Surviving oppression under the rock: the intersection of New York's drug, welfare, and educational polices in the lived experiences of low-income African Americans. J Ethn Subst Abuse 11:339-61
Windsor, Liliane Cambraia; Dunlap, Eloise; Golub, Andrew (2011) Challenging controlling images, oppression, poverty and other structural constraints: Survival strategies among African American women in distressed households. J Afr Am Stud (New Brunsw) 15:290-306
Dunlap, Eloise; Golub, Andrew (2011) Drug markets during the Katrina disaster. Disaster Prev Manag 20:251-265
Bennett, Alex S; Golub, Andrew; Dunlap, Eloise (2011) DRUG MARKET RECONSTITUTION AFTER HURRICANE KATRINA: LESSONS FOR LOCAL DRUG ABUSE CONTROL INITIATIVES. Justice Res Policy 13:23-44
Golub, Andrew; Dunlap, Eloise; Benoit, Ellen (2010) Drug use and conflict in inner-city African-American relationships in the 2000s. J Psychoactive Drugs 42:327-37
Kotarba, Joseph A; Fackler, Jennifer; Johnson, Bruce D et al. (2010) The melding of drug markets in Houston after Katrina: dealer and user perspectives. Subst Use Misuse 45:1390-405

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