Parents' and Children's Reports of Parenting Practices and Parent and Child Alcohol Use

SUMMARY Parents' and children's reports of child and parent alcohol use and parental attitudes/practices were compared. Although the correlations between child/parent and mother/father reports of child alcohol use were significant, they were not high. Parents and children were similar with respect to their reports of overall mean levels of child alcohol use. There were higher correlations between parents' and children's reports of the parents' alcohol use. Comparison of the means of reported parental alcohol use by children and parents showed that children tended to underestimate the alcohol use of both parents.