The methods were through a “phenomenological approach.” These subjects, males, were placed in a treatment center in Kerman, Iran for 11 months. The study was conducted through October 2008 to August 2009. The subjects were males that had been addicted and abuses of the drug opium and had at least one child. This study has five themes the researchers were testing; “ emotional relations, economical problems, experiences of communicating with children, the effects of substance abuse on …show more content…
Children can risk medical problems if the women is on drugs while pregnant, influence negative negligent, and can live in an unstable home environment. Abuse is most likely to increase from the fathers when drugs are involved. Researchers also think each children are more likely to face “environmental stress, low mental health, low socioeconomic and marital status.” Fathers that are dependent on drugs are not as recorded as women. In Eastern cultures, the family would still keep the child live with them even if they were on drugs. They would usually get support or social support services from the government, which is also a negative viewpoint of the children. It would be showing the child that drug addicted individuals and non working citizens are work and still receive money. In Kerman, Iran the cultures is different about family values. The fathers are treated with respect from his children and the mother is the