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08 Feb 2010

What parents say more important than what they do?

I'm once again indebted to Mike Ashton for bringing a research paper to my attention.  This one comes from Holland and suggests that the "do as I say, not as I do" approach may still have something going for it.

Onset of alcohol use as well as infrequent and regular drinking were associated with tolerant rules and attitude as reported by adolescents, and by a tolerant attitude as reported by parents. In contrast to former studies including middle and late adolescents, parental alcohol use was not found to be associated with early adolescent alcohol use, nor did parental alcohol use influence the impact of parental rules. Restrictive alcohol-specific socialization was, independent of parental alcohol use, related to absence of (regular) early adolescent drinking.

Find the paper here.

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