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Saturday, May 30, 2009

The Impact of Parenthood on Alcohol Consumption Trajectories
Variations as a Function of Timing of Parenthood, Familial Alcoholism and Gender
Dev Psychopathol. 2009; 21(2): 661–682.

The current study tested the impact of the transition to parenthood on growth in alcohol consumption from early adolescence through emerging adulthood.

We measured age-related discontinuity in trajectories of alcohol consumption associated with timing of the parenthood transition, above and beyond the effects of accrued educational status, gender and time-varying marital status.

We also examined the impact of a familial selection factor for the transmission of alcohol use problems, family history density of alcoholism (FHD), on both risk for adolescent parenthood and risk for adolescent parents’ continuity in alcohol consumption after the parent-transition within a mediation structural equation model.


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