poor parent-child communication (Luk et al., 2010), and low parent-child closeness (Shorey et al., 2013), have been associated with more alcohol use and externalizing problems among adolescents. Parental alcohol problems consume parents’ psychosocial and financial resources. Thus, parents with concurrent or past (through legacy or cascading effects) alcohol problems may be impaired in their ability to maintain good home environments and provide positive parenting behaviors, which in turn negatively influence adolescent outcomes. Indeed, parental alcohol dependence is associated with decreased parental monitoring (Chassin et al., 1993; Shorey et al., 2013), lower parental warmth and involvement (Kachadourian et al., 2009), poorer parent-child communication (Ohannessian, 2012), and lower parent-child closeness (Shorey et al., 2013), which in turn are related to higher adolescent risky drinking and conduct problems.
