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Thursday, January 17, 2008

Parenting Mechanisms in Links Between Parents’ and Adolescents’ Alcohol Use Behaviors
Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research (OnlineEarly Articles)\ 21 Dec 2007

Adolescence has been identified as a critical period with regard to the initiation and early escalation of alcohol use. Moreover, research on familial risk and protective processes provides independent support for multiple domains of parental influence on adolescent drinking; including parents’ own drinking behaviors, as well as the practices they employ to socialize their children. Despite this prevalence of findings, whether and how these distinct associations are related to one another is still not entirely clear.

This study demonstrates that parenting is an important mediator of the association between parental and adolescent drinking practices. An important area for future research will be to study how adolescents can avoid alcohol-related problems despite being reared within a risk laden parenting environment and/or having parents who drink frequently.

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