Parents serve as a primary socialization agent for adolescents and play an important role in influencing adolescent outcomes such as substance use and deviant behaviors through parenting and parent-child interactions (Oetting & Donnermeyer, 1998). Thus, in addition to direct associations (due to social learning or modeling), parental alcohol dependence may influence adolescent adjustment indirectly by disrupting positive parenting behaviors. Positive parenting includes parental behaviors that express and convey support, warmth, affection, and acceptance to their offspring (Oppenheimer, Hankin, Jenness, Young, & Smolen, 2013). The extent to which parents exhibit positive parenting toward their children is associated with a variety of developmental outcomes, including problematic alcohol use and externalizing problems. For example, low levels of positive parenting such as low parental involvement and support (Barnes et al., 2000; Shelton & van den Bree, 2010), low parental warmth (Klevens & Hall, 2014), 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
