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We examine three family influences identified 8.s risk factors for adolescent alcohol abuse, parental alcohol consumption, poor family management practices, and parental norms permissive of alcohol use by adolescents. To sort out the unique effects of these influences on alcohol use by Black and White adolescents, we present data from a longitudinal study and compare current alcohol users with noninitiators at ages 14 to 15. Data collected when the youths were 12 to 13 years old show parental drinking frequecy as a predictor of current alcohol use at ages 14 to 15 for both ethnic groups. This effect appears to be mediated by family management practices and proscriptions against involving children in other family members' alcohol use. Good family management practices decreased the likelihood of current adolescent alcohol use. Parental attitudes regarding adolescent alcohol use did not predict current adolescent use over and above the effects of parental drinking and family management practices, but a norm-...
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