Although studies on parenting and adolescent alcohol use
have been informative, two important issues have hardly
been addressed. First, most studies on the link between
parenting and adolescent alcohol use have focused on
general parenting. However, alcohol-specific socialization,
which refers to the actions parents undertake to discourage
or prevent their offspring from drinking (Jackson et al.
1999; Van der Vorst et al. 2005), has received less attention
in relation to parental drinking and adolescent alcohol
use. Wood et al. (2004) found that late adolescents drank
less alcohol when their parents disapproved of drinking. In
addition, imposing strict rules prevented youngsters from
heavy drinking (Jackson et al. 1999; Van der Vorst et al.
2005; Yu 2003). However, whether parental problem
drinking affects alcohol-specific parenting has not yet been
examined. From studies on smoking we know that parents