ArticleAlcoholism, clinical and experimental research2020
Parents Allowing Drinking Is Associated With Adolescents' Heavy Alcohol Use.
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- Personalized Feedback in Parent-Based Interventions to Prevent or Reduce Adolescent Drinking.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2025Article
- Situational correlates of adolescents' alcohol outcome expectancies in daily life.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2025Article
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- Sibling influences on adolescent alcohol use during the spring 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shutdown.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2023Article
- Associations Between Parental Drinking and Alcohol Use Among Their Adolescent Children: Findings From a National Survey of United States Parent-Child Dyads.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Adolescent binge drinking in the West of Ireland: associated risk and protective factors.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Does parental permissiveness toward cigarette smoking and alcohol use influence illicit drug use among adolescents? A longitudinal study in seven European countries.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2022Article
- A prospective investigation of youth alcohol experimentation and reward responsivity in the ABCD study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- COVID-19 and Substance Use in Adolescents.Pediatric clinics of North America · 2021Review
- Parents Who First Allowed Adolescents to Drink Alcohol in a Family Context During Spring 2020 COVID-19 Emergency Shutdowns.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Article
- Adolescents' Perceptions and Experiences of Their Responsibilities for Their Alcohol Use-A Group Interview Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Parental drinking according to parental composition and adolescent binge drinking: findings from a nationwide high school survey in Japan.BMC public health · 2020Article
- What Does Adolescent Substance Use Look Like During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Examining Changes in Frequency, Social Contexts, and Pandemic-Related Predictors.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
- Adolescent Life in the Early Days of the Pandemic: Less and More Substance Use.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundUsing intergenerational prospective data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), we examine whether parents allowing 14-year-olds to drink alcohol is associated with greater likelihood of early adolescents' heavy episodic drinking (i.e., lifetime, rapid escalation from first drink, and frequent past year), beyond shared risk factors for parental alcohol permissiveness and adolescent alcohol use.
methodsThe MCS is a unique, contemporary, nationally representative study with mother, father, and child data from infancy through age 14 years (n = 11,485 children and their parents). In a series of multivariate logistic regressions, we estimated whether teenagers whose parents allowed them to drink alcohol (16% of parents said "yes") faced an elevated likelihood of heavy alcohol use at age 14, controlling for a large host of likely child and parent confounders measured when children were age 11. To further assess plausible intergenerational associations of parental alcohol permissiveness and offspring heavy alcohol use, coarsened exact matching (CEM) was used to match 14-year-olds whose parents allowed them to drink alcohol with teens whose parents did not allow them to drink on these childhood antecedent variables.
resultsAdolescents whose parents allowed them to drink had higher odds of heavy drinking (odds ratio [OR] = 2.40; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.96 to 2.94), rapidly escalating from initiation to heavy drinking (OR = 1.94; CI = 1.52 to 2.49), and frequent heavy drinking (OR = 2.32; 1.73 to 3.09), beyond child and parent confounders and using CEM methods.
conclusionsAdolescents who were allowed to drink were more likely to have transitioned quickly from their first drink to consuming 5 or more drinks at 1 time and to drinking heavily 3 or more times in the past year. Given well-documented harms of adolescent heavy drinking, these results do not support the idea that parents allowing children to drink alcohol inoculates them against alcohol misuse.
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