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Quality of Parenting in Alcoholics and Narcotic Addicts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Elsa Bernardi ,
Michael Jones  and
Chris Tennant
Elsa Bernardi*
Affiliation:
Chatswood Community Health Centre, Chatswood, NSW 2067
Michael Jones
Affiliation:
Health Information Systems Department, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW 2065
Chris Tennant
Affiliation:
Academic Department of Psychiatry, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW 2065, Australia
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

Alcoholics and heroin addicts were compared with a normal control group to determine whether there were differences in quality of parenting during childhood, assessed using the Parental Bonding Instrument. Maternal and paternal overprotection were reported more commonly by narcotic addicts. Maternal overprotection alone was implicated in alcoholics. Narcotic addicts seem to have more disturbed parenting than alcoholics, especially paternal parenting.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 154 , Issue 5 , May 1989 , pp. 677 - 682
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1989 

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