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  • Title: Why some children of alcoholics become alcoholics: emulation of the drinker.
    Author: Ullman AD, Orenstein A.
    Journal: Adolescence; 1994; 29(113):1-11. PubMed ID: 8036968.
    Abstract:
    From a review of recent literature, support was found for the hypothesis that the power of an alcoholic parent within a household is related to whether offspring become alcoholic. In considering reasons for this relationship, it is suggested here that children and adolescents are more likely to emulate and identify with a powerful alcoholic parent and, through these processes, learn that alcohol can make them feel powerful.
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