Parents Allowing Drinking Is Associated With Adolescents’ Heavy Alcohol Use

Background Using intergenerational prospective data from the Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), we examine whether parents allowing 14‐year‐olds to drink alcohol is associated with greater likelihood of early adolescents’ heavy episodic drinking (i.e., lifetime, rapid escalation from first drink, and frequent past year), beyond shared risk factors for parental alcohol permissiveness and adolescent alcohol use. Methods The MCS is a unique,...