Changes in Externalizing Behaviors After Children First Have an Alcoholic Drink and First Drink Heavily

Objective: Proximal changes in externalizing behaviors before and after children and early adolescents have their first alcoholic drink and first heavy drinking episode are examined using intergenerational, prospective data from the ongoing U.K. national Millennium Cohort Study (10,529 child–parent pairs followed over 35,406 occasions). Method: We examined how within-person changes in externalizing behaviors (based on parental reports on the...