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Peer reviewedFitzgerald, Hiram E.; And Others – Child Development, 1993
Examined risk factors of 3-year-old sons in 58 families with alcoholic fathers and 16 families with nonalcoholic fathers. Found that sons of alcoholic fathers were more impulsive than sons of nonalcoholic fathers. No differences between the groups in developmental age, IQ, or behavior problems were found. (MDM)
Descriptors: Alcoholism, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems, Fathers
Peer reviewedLoukas, Alexandra; Piejak, Lisa A.; Bingham, C. Raymond; Fitzgerald, Hiram E.; Zucker, Robert A. – Family Relations, 2001
Structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesis that parental distress would mediate relations between parental lifetime alcohol and physical health problems and child behavior problems. Results indicated that sons of parents with alcohol and physical health problems are at elevated risk for behavior problems, partly related to…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Alcoholism, At Risk Persons, Behavior Problems
