Foreign Studies

Errin J. Jeffers (2001) conducted a research on “alcohol and College Students :

Do parents Matter?”. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship of

students with parents before the student came to college, after the student matriculates

at college, and after parental notification. The quantitative and qualitative portion used

to describe alcohol and college student among 13 students in this study. The study

revealed some interesting findings: 1) parents and student relationships appear to

improve over time, while the parents ‘ level of involvement with their students remains

the same ; 2) during all the periods, the participants indicated that their parents had little

control their alcohol consumption; 3) While students may have experienced frustration

with the parental notification process, most were comfortable with the concept of

parents being notified when students have violates university policy with respect to

alcohol; and 4)Most students came to college with experience drinking alcohol, and

most had parents who were permissive in their attitudes towards drinking once students

arrived at college.

Petter Lundborg (2002) also conducted a research on “Young People and

Alcohol: an Economic Analysis in Sweden.” The study aims to analyse the determinants

of youth drinking behaviour within an economic-theoretical framework. It focused

especially on the effects of a) having parents willing to supply alcohol, b) living in a

single-parent housebound, c) having parents who are currently unemployed and d)

having education about alcohol, narcotics and tobacco. Luneburg designed a Swedish

cross-sectional survey data on 833 individuals aged 12-18 years and the design was
used to analyze the effects of the above variables on participation in drinking, frequency

of drinking, intensity of drinking and binge drinking.

The study found that having parents willing to supply alcohol increased frequency

to be, wine and spirits consumption, intensity of wine, spirits and illicit alcohol

consumption, and increased probabilities of binge drinking and participation in drinking.

No effects were seen from living in a single-parent household. Having received

education about alcohol, narcotics and tobacco had a negative association about

alcohol, narcotics and tobacco had a negative association only with intensity of beer

consumption. Having father who was currently unemployed was associated with an

increased probability of binge drinking but a reduced frequency of wine consumption.

The study concluded that the positive effect of having parents willing to supply

alcohol could reflect that these individuals face lower acquisition costs or lower

psychological costs in consumption. It could also reflect a price effect, if the individual

receives the alcohol free from his or her parents.

Kevin school report (2002-2004), “section 3 Drugs of abuse alcohol” reported that

today, we know the following facs of the total adult population; 1) 90% have tried alcohol

during their Lifetime, 2)60% are classified as regular drinkers (consuming alcoholic

baverages more than once a month); 3) 40% are non-drinkers for a variety of reasons,

including religios beliefs, family beliefs ethnic background1 and like the . 4 ) 7% of the

drinking population age 18 older drink alcohol on a daily basis, yet these 7% consume

almost half of all alcohol drunk in this country and 5) 10 to 11% of those who drink

develop the problem of alcoholism.