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Do maternal parenting practices predict problematic patterns of adolescent alcohol consumption?

Objective This study examines whether a mother’s style of parenting at child age 5 years predicts problematic patterns of drinking in adolescence, after controlling for relevant individual, maternal and social risk factors. Methods Data were used from the Mater-University Study of Pregnancy, an Australian longitudinal study of mothers and their children from pregnancy to when the children were 14 years of age. Logistic regression analyses examined whether maternal parenting practices at child age 5 predicted problematic drinking patterns in adolescence, after controlling for a range of confounding covariates.Results Physical punishment at child age 5 did not predict adolescent alcohol problems at follow-up.