Alcoholic fathering and its relation to child's intellectual development: a pilot investigation.
In this study, the relationship between being raised by an alcoholic father and intellectual and academic achievement of the child were investigated. One hundred children of non-alcoholic mothers, 50 of whom had alcoholic fathers and 50 of whom had non-alcoholic fathers, were administered age-appropriate IQ, developmental, and achievement tests. Analysis of covariance revealed significant relationships between alcoholic fathering and IQ and achievement scores, independent of a number of possibly confounding variables. When children with alcoholic biological fathers were excluded, a relationship between IQ and alcoholic fathering persisted. Thus children raised by alcoholic fathers are a population at risk, in need of further scientific and clinical attention.
D000293:Adolescent; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000235:genetics*; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012306:Risk; D012907:Smoking; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors