One possible explanation for greater retrospectively reported levels of drinking is that current drinking may cue recall, although retrospective report was also greater after very brief intervals (e.g., Streissguth, et al., 1976), within the same pregnancy (e.g., Alvik, et al., 2006a; 2006b; Robles & Day, 1990; Streissguth, et al., 1976), and in non-pregnant women (Czarnecki et al., 1990). The present results show that caregiver drinking assessed at the 14-year assessment predicted some of the same outcomes as retrospective report, and that controlling for current caregiver drinking eliminated some, but not all, significant relations between retrospective AAD and/or AADD and outcomes. While these analyses suggest that the retrospective report may have been “cued” by the current report collected at the same time (cf., Alvik, et al., 2006a; 2006b), it is at least as likely that measures of current drinking and retrospective report are closely related because they reflect consistent levels of drinking across time. In addition, at least 6 outcomes are predicted by current drinking but not by either antenatal or retrospective report, suggesting that current drinking is also assessing something
