Nonrandom Partner Selection

selecting a problem-drinking partner is known as “nonrandom partner selection” (Egendorf 20). Further research has found that alcoholics and problem drinkers are likely to marry partners in the same condition which can increase the adverse outcomes of offspring by genetic and environmental risk. The genetic risk is that the offspring can inherit a genetic predisposition towards alcoholism through both the maternal and paternal sides of the family. The environmental risk is increased when two alcoholic parents raise their children in that condition; which can severely compromise the parenting skills and influence negative manners that jeopardize the development of their offspring. Adolescents living in these conditions can easily learn and imitate
Be that as it may, the question still comes about as asked in the previous paragraph: ¿What else can a parent do to prevent their adolescent from being an alcoholic in their adulthood? A researcher, from the Research Institute on Addictions, answers this question starting by mentioning that there are two key dimensions on parental socialization and child outcome. It consists of parental support, which includes nurturance, acceptance, and love; and parental control, such as discipline, punishment, and monitoring. The researcher further states that the “support construct was defined as parental behaviors towards the child that indicates the child that he or she is accepted and loved” and the “control construct was defined as parental behaviors toward the child that are intended to direct the child’s behavior in a manner acceptable to the parent” (Barnes 176). Barnes also explains that control attempts can range from coercive parental actions, just as hitting and yelling, to inductive control attempts, like a parent explaining to their adolescent why he or she should not have done a certain thing and what they expect from them in the future; it also can consist of monitoring, which includes parental awareness of where their adolescent is at, who are their companions, and
Karen Bogenschneider, from the University of Wisconsin, complies with the reasoning since she