alcoholic parent
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalcoholicandparent
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alcoholic
adjective
uk/ˌæl.kəˈhɒl.ɪk/us/ˌæl.kəˈhɑː.lɪk/
containing ...
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parent
noun[C]
uk/ˈpeə.rənt/us/ˈper.ənt/
a mother or father of a person or an animal, or someone who looks after a person in the same way that a ...
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(Definition ofalcoholicandparentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At least two mechanisms may account for the heightened risk for internalizing symptoms associated with having two alcoholic parents.
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Those with alcoholic parents and those with higher levels of young adult heavy drinking had higher levels of perceived competence (both self-reports and collateral reports).
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Because families with two alcoholic parents may plausibly create familial contexts with more severe psychopathology more generally, this finding is important.
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Specifically, girls were at greater risk for internalizing symptoms if they had two alcoholic parents rather than one, whereas for boys no additional risk was found.
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Coping with stress in a family with analcoholicparent.
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With regard to other predictors, having analcoholicparentwas associated with membership in the higher inattention 0 hyperactivity trajectory classes.
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Thus, the risk of having a singlealcoholicparentdiffered by reporter but the risk of having two alcoholic parents, rather than one, was robust.
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In the current sample, 53% of families had at least onealcoholicparent.
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Of these, 246 included a biological and custodialalcoholicparent, whereas 208 were matched controls.
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In fact the incidence was just as great as it was among their brothers who had not been adopted but remained in contact with thealcoholicparent.
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Or, the child may then go to thealcoholicparent, relaying what they were told.
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Of importance, the risk for internalizing symptoms associated with having two alcoholic parents was not fully accounted for by parental depression and antisociality.
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In addition, this risk from having two alcoholic parents was significant above and beyond that presented by parental depression and antisociality.
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Specifically, we tested three hypotheses using a community based, longitudinal, high-risk sample of children of alcoholic parents and matched controls.
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As noted earlier, alcoholic parents who experience impaired functioning may be particularly prone to feelings of abandonment.
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The presence of analcoholicparentincreased the risk of alcoholism by three times, although it was not clear from the data if the factors were genetic or environmental.
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