Consistent with hypothesis and prior research (e.g., Chassin et al., 1993, Ohannessian, 2012), our findings suggest that parenting behaviors serve as a mediating pathway for the influence of fathers’ ADS on adolescent risky drinking and conduct problems. Our findings revealed unique patterns of spillover and crossover effects for fathers and mothers. Consistent with the family systems perspective, fathers’ ADS not only undermine their own positive parenting behaviors but also disrupt mothers’ parenting behaviors. Perhaps fathers’ ADS create high levels of strain and emotional tension in the home and/or impair the quality of relationship with the adolescents’ mother (Kachadourian et al., 2009; Leonard, & Eiden, 2007), which in turn was associated with higher adolescent risky drinking and conduct problems. It is also likely the case that when the father exhibited ADS, the mother would need to compensate by increasing her responsibilities and duties (e.g., doing some of the fathers’ duties), which may result in additional stress and time involvement that could potentially undermine mothers’ positive parenting. In contrast, mothers’ ADS did not negatively influence their own or fathers’ parenting behaviors. Perhaps
