title: Is Drinking with Parents Associated with High-Risk Drinking among Adolescents?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  What are the implications of drinking with parents (DWP) on adolescents' drinking behavior? We expanded the meagre body of research on this controversial issue by assessing the association between the frequency of DWP and adolescent high-risk drinking, taking a number of parental factors into account.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data stemmed from a subsample of 14-17-year-old current drinkers (n = 7,616) who participated in a cross-sectional Norwegian school survey (response rate: 84%).
  
  
  RESULTS
  One in four reported DWP during the past year. The higher the frequency of DWP, the higher was the prevalence of high-risk drinking. Parental drunkenness, permissive alcohol-related parenting, and indicators of suboptimal parenting more generally also correlated with DWP. After controlling for these confounders, only frequent DWP remained significantly associated with high-risk drinking.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  DWP was related to adolescent high-risk drinking, yet the association was in part attributable to parents' drinking and parenting style. The risk of involvement in high-risk drinking was about the same for adolescents reporting no DWP and infrequent DWP, while it was significantly elevated among those reporting frequent DWP. This study thus demonstrated that the frequency of DWP matters and that parents who drink with their adolescent children differ from other parents in important ways.
authors.affiliation: Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research (SIRUS), PB 565 Sentrum, Oslo, Norway.
authors.forename: Hilde
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Pape
authors.forename: Ingeborg
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Rossow
authors.forename: Elisabet E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Storvoll
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009664:Norway / Q000453:epidemiology; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology; D015995:Prevalence; D012306:Risk; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors