Rates of adolescents’ drinking and conduct problems vary across ethnicity. Compared to European American (EA) adolescents, African American (AA) adolescents are less likely to consume alcohol (Johnston et al., 2015) but have more conduct problems (McLaughlin et al., 2007). In addition, the influence of risk and protective factors, including those from the family context, on adolescent outcomes may differ across ethnic groups (Su & Supple, 2014). EA and AA families often differ in their neighborhood environments, socioeconomic status, and cultural norms, which may lead to differences in parenting behaviors and their effects on child development (Amato & Fowler, 2002; Hill, 2006). For example, a high level of parental control may be benign or protective among AAs (compared to EAs), because it is relatively normative in AA communities, particularly among those who live in at-risk neighborhoods (Deater-Deckard & Dodge, 1997; Mason et al., 2004). Indeed, an authoritarian parenting style characterized by low acceptance and high control was associated with lower increase in heavy episodic drinking over time for AA adolescents but not for EA adolescents (Clark et al., 2015). Deutsch and
