Disrupted family rituals; a factor in the intergenerational transmission of alcoholism

J Stud Alcohol. 1980 Mar;41(3):199-214. doi: 10.15288/jsa.1980.41.199.

Abstract

When one or both parents in a family are alcoholics, their children are more likely to become alcoholics if family rituals--surrounding dinner time, evenings, holidays, weekends, vacations and visitors--are disrupted during the period of heaviest parental drinking.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Alcohol Drinking
  • Alcoholism / genetics*
  • Alcoholism / psychology
  • Ceremonial Behavior*
  • Child
  • Child Development
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Parents / psychology*