Results adjusted for adolescent mental distress and report of seeing parents drunk are shown in Table 2. The associations between maternal alcohol abuse and attention problems and conduct problems were weakened when the adolescents' level of mental distress was added to the analyses (Δd = 0.08 for attention, Δd = 0.03 for conduct). Associations with paternal alcohol abuse remained nearly unchanged (Δd = 0.01), for both attention and conduct problems. Changes in estimates for at-risk drinking were small (Δd ≤ 0.02). Although the estimates for maternal alcohol abuse fell below the significance level, maternal abuse was still as strong a predictor as paternal abuse.
