Documenting a strong link between the liberal attitudes of parents to alcohol and their children’s drinking, the research urges health-action plans to target both the behaviour of adolescents and the attitudes of their parents.
The study noted the different influences of fathers and mothers in their children’s behaviour and attitudes to alcohol.
The adolescents of fathers who were drinking hazardously were three times as likely to report hazardous consumption themselves.
Source: Cormac O'Keeffe, The Irish Examiner, 29/08/16
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