Alcoholism and Timing of Separation in Parents: Findings in a Midwestern Birth Cohort

We examined history of alcoholism and occurrence and timing of separation in parents of a female twin cohort.Parental separation (never-together; never-married cohabitants who separated; married who separated) was predicted from maternal and paternal alcoholism in 326 African ancestry (AA) and 1,849 European/ other ancestry (EA) families. Broad (single-informant, reported in abstract) and narrow (self-report or two-informant) measures of...