"Drinking definitely wasn't something that we'd seen anybody do": the relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol socialisation

Holdsworth, Clare, Laverty, Louise ORCID: 0000-0002-8491-8171 and Robinson, Jude ORCID: 0000-0001-5491-4893 (2017) "Drinking definitely wasn't something that we'd seen anybody do": the relevance of childhood experiences of family drinking for parenting strategies of alcohol socialisation. Families, Relationships and Societies: an international journal of research and debate, 6 (1). pp. 37-52.

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Abstract

This article considers the significance of family context for intergenerational drinking practices. Socialisation approaches to drinking behaviours assume that people carry forward actions and ideals that are developed in formative settings during childhood, particularly the family, community or school. In this article, we consider how a more active interpretation of time as a creative force can challenge the deterministic principles of family socialisation. We consider how parents use their own childhood experiences of drinking not necessarily as a blueprint of how they should act towards their own children, but as accounts of how not to act and how they are able to reverse their childhood experiences. Our account of drinking across generations is based on an analysis of 21 biographical interviews with parents of teenage children and considers how their childhood experiences of alcohol and drinking influence their own parental strategies when regulating their children's exposure to alcohol.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adolescent, alcohol, family, generation, memory, socialisation
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	06 Dec 2018 08:59
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:09
DOI:	10.1332/204674315X14359059952709
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3029594

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