On average four thousand three hundred fifty eight people under the age of 21 die because of an alcohol related abuse or accident. What influence can a parent have to prevent their teenager from making a dreadful decision? The parents’ influences can cause a great impact in the health attitudes and behavioral norms of their teenager; however, if the teenager is not guided in the correct pathway the results can be overwhelming. Having this said, throughout this paper we will analyze the positive and negative roles parent can have on the way they teach their teen about alcohol.
Through years, researchers and scientist have analyzed and explored the role of parents and family members on the development and prevention of alcohol abuse on teenagers. …show more content…
Neither style is appropriate to make a teenager understand that alcohol abuse is not beneficial to them; however, a parenting balance between being too authoritative and too lenient produces more academic achievers, higher self-esteem, and general mental health that are less likely to engage in problematic behaviors (Williams e239). It is clear that the positive and effective parental guidance plays an important role in their adolescent’s life when making decisions that affect their health and …show more content…
Jolanda JP Mathijssen, researcher and Social and Behavioral Sciences Tranzo for the University of Tilburg, states that “parents appear to play the most important role in the prevention of their teenager alcohol use... [And] that the parent-child relationship is associated with adolescent alcohol use or abuse” (872,878), since adolescents that described their relationship with their parents as negative reported both more life-time alcohol use, more recent alcohol use, and more frequent binge drinking than adolescents that described their relationship as positive (878). She also mentioned that parents have different rules towards alcohol use; restrictive rules were effective when it was combined with high quality and frequent communication about alcohol, they also should be able to say no and combine their restrictive rule with a high quality of the parent-child relationship to their teenager when wanting to use alcohol. Another aspect of the parent-child relationship includes role modeling, if role modeling is not effective the teenager’s perception of parental drinking quantity and circumstances influences their own
Through years, researchers and scientist have analyzed and explored the role of parents and family members on the development and prevention of alcohol abuse on teenagers. …show more content…
Neither style is appropriate to make a teenager understand that alcohol abuse is not beneficial to them; however, a parenting balance between being too authoritative and too lenient produces more academic achievers, higher self-esteem, and general mental health that are less likely to engage in problematic behaviors (Williams e239). It is clear that the positive and effective parental guidance plays an important role in their adolescent’s life when making decisions that affect their health and …show more content…
Jolanda JP Mathijssen, researcher and Social and Behavioral Sciences Tranzo for the University of Tilburg, states that “parents appear to play the most important role in the prevention of their teenager alcohol use... [And] that the parent-child relationship is associated with adolescent alcohol use or abuse” (872,878), since adolescents that described their relationship with their parents as negative reported both more life-time alcohol use, more recent alcohol use, and more frequent binge drinking than adolescents that described their relationship as positive (878). She also mentioned that parents have different rules towards alcohol use; restrictive rules were effective when it was combined with high quality and frequent communication about alcohol, they also should be able to say no and combine their restrictive rule with a high quality of the parent-child relationship to their teenager when wanting to use alcohol. Another aspect of the parent-child relationship includes role modeling, if role modeling is not effective the teenager’s perception of parental drinking quantity and circumstances influences their own