Alcohol-related problems of children of heavy-drinking parents.
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Alcohol Research Documentation, Inc. in Journal of Studies on Alcohol
- Vol. 48 (3) , 265-268
- https://doi.org/10.15288/jsa.1987.48.265
Abstract
Alcohol-related problems that are experienced by sons and daughters of heavy-drinking parents (either father or mother) are examined using data from a 1978 household sample of employed adults in metropolitan Detroit. Adult children with heavy-drinking parents were found to have a higher percentage of dependent problem drinking than those without heavy-drinking parents. Also, adult children with low status (blue-collar) occupations were found to have a higher percentage of dependent problem drinking than those with high status (white-collar) occupations. Although it was not possible to disentangle the genetic processes from the social processes in this study, the results support the hypothesis that having both heavy-drinking parents and low occupational status places sons and daughters at elevated risk for alcohol-related problems. Implications for future epidemiological studies are discussed.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: