A high-risk community study of paternal alcohol consumption and adolescents' psychosocial characteristics.

Effects of paternal drinking, conduct disorder and childhood home environment on the development of alcohol use disorders in a Thai population

“…None of the variables reflecting parent–child involvement in family activities, parental personality problems or embarrassing characteristics, or parental disciplinary practice yielded significant associations with alcohol use disorders in the final model. Differences in culture, attitude and lifestyle may be one reason for the different findings between our study and others’ (Bennett et al 1988; Cumes‐Rayner et al 1992; Lewis & Bucholz 1991; Ohannessian et al 1995; Seilhamer et al 1993; Hawkins 1997). Our subjects spent their childhood in rural villages, their family rituals and routines were quite simple.…”

“…A father’s alcohol‐related adverse behaviours appeared to pose an additional risk for the son only if the father was an infrequent drinker, in which case the risk of alcohol dependence in the son was increased. A modelling process in which the child’s drinking pattern is acquired through imitative social learning or modeling of parental alcohol consumption may be responsible for this association between paternal infrequent drinking and the son’s hazardous/harmful use (Barnes & Welte 1990; Cumes‐Rayner et al 1992; Koopmans & Boomsma 1996). This is in keeping with another study, which found that offspring appeared to imitate their same‐sex parent’s drinking level more than that of the opposite‐sex parent, but when parental drinking behaviour was perceived as extreme, either complete abstinence or heavy drinking, imitation was lessened (Harburg et al 1982).…”

Relationships between Family Rituals, Family Routines, and Health

“…For example, families with alcoholic members often experience stressful events due to drinking behaviors that disturb usual family routines and require members to protect valued routines (Steinglass et al, 1987). A body of evidence exists about the impact of family-of-origin routines or rituals and alcohol abuse in offspring adults (Cumes-Rayner et al, 1992;Hawkins, 1997;Steinglass et al, 1987;Wolin et al, 1980). Although genetic factors have been tied to familial transmission of alcoholism, empirical data has shown that family environments and routines are protective factors (Bennett et al, 1987;Fiese, 1993a).…”

The association between maternal and paternal substance use and child substance use, internalizing and externalizing problems: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

“…All parents within the studies were biological relatives. Fifteen studies included data associated with parental alcohol misuse [7,8,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], four included data for illicit drug use [42,45,47,52] and one included data on substance use (alcohol and/or drugs combined) [53]. Fifteen studies examined child exposure to paternal substance use [7,8,40,[43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54] and 11 studies examined exposure to maternal substance use [7, 39, 41-45, 48, 49, 52, 53].…”

“…Fifteen studies included data associated with parental alcohol misuse [7,8,[39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51], four included data for illicit drug use [42,45,47,52] and one included data on substance use (alcohol and/or drugs combined) [53]. Fifteen studies examined child exposure to paternal substance use [7,8,40,[43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54] and 11 studies examined exposure to maternal substance use [7, 39, 41-45, 48, 49, 52, 53]. Study outcomes varied with 12 studies reporting on child substance use [7, 8, 39-46, 48, 51], seven studies reporting on child externalizing problems [39,40,47,48,50,51,53] and six studies reporting on child internalizing problems [39,47,…”