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Alcoholic Fathering and Its Relation to Child's Intellectual Development: A Pilot Investigation
Author(s) -
Ervin Cynthia S.,
Little Ruth E.,
Streissguth Ann Pytkowicz,
Beck Don E.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
alcoholism: clinical and experimental research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.267
H-Index - 153
eISSN - 1530-0277
pISSN - 0145-6008
DOI - 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1984.tb05681.x
Subject(s) - developmental psychology , psychology , confounding , intelligence quotient , population , borderline intellectual functioning , clinical psychology , medicine , psychiatry , cognition , environmental health , pathology
In this study, the relationship between being raised by an alcoholic father and intellectual and academic achievement of the child were investigated. One hundred children of non‐alcoholic mothers, 50 of whom had alcohoec fathers and 50 of whom had non‐alcoholic fathers, were administered age‐appropriate IQ, developmental, and achievement tests. Analysis of covariance revealed significant relationships between alcoholic fathering and IQ and achievement scores, independent of a number of possibly confounding variables. When children with alcoholic biological fathers were excluded, a relationship between IQ and alcoholic fathering persisted. Thus children raised by alcoholic fathers are a population at risk, in need of further scientific and clinical attention.