Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
School of Allied Health, Human Services and Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Sociol Health Illn. 2022 Jun;44(6):1009-1026. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.13475. Epub 2022 Apr 29.
How parents manage potential tensions between normative discourses of 'competent parenting' and their desires to consume alcohol has received little attention. In this article, we explore the elements that encourage or constrain parents' drinking and investigate how parents consider and manage their alcohol use in the context of multiple social roles with sometimes conflicting demands and expectations around 'competent parenting'. Our analysis draws on 30 semi-structured interviews with Australian parents, conducted as part of a broader project which aimed to explore how home drinking is integrated into everyday life. While parents' accounts of drinking alcohol highlighted effects such as embodied experiences of relaxation and facilitating shared adult moments, many participants described drinking less than they otherwise would if their children were not present. Participants discussed various social roles and routines which constrained consumption, with drinking bounded by responsibility. As such, drinking emerged as something needing to be actively negotiated, particularly in light of discourses that frame expectations of what constitutes 'competent parenting'. When considering parents' alcohol consumption in the future, we argue that it is important to destigmatise their consumption by acknowledging the importance of adults' pleasure and wellbeing, alongside children's needs for safety and modelling of safer alcohol consumption.
父母如何应对“合格父母”的规范性话语与他们饮酒欲望之间潜在的紧张关系，这一问题尚未得到充分关注。本文探讨了鼓励或限制父母饮酒的因素，并研究了父母如何在多重社会角色背景下考虑和管理自己的饮酒行为，这些角色有时会对“合格父母”提出相互冲突的要求和期望。本分析基于对 30 名澳大利亚父母的半结构化访谈，这些访谈是更广泛的项目的一部分，旨在探讨家庭饮酒如何融入日常生活。虽然父母对饮酒的描述强调了放松和促进共享成人时刻等身体体验的影响，但许多参与者表示，如果孩子不在场，他们的饮酒量会比平时少。参与者讨论了各种限制消费的社会角色和日常生活，饮酒受到责任的约束。因此，饮酒需要积极协商，尤其是在那些框定了“合格父母”期望的话语背景下。在未来考虑父母的饮酒问题时，我们认为，通过承认成年人的快乐和幸福以及儿童对安全的需求以及更安全饮酒行为的榜样的重要性，来消除对其饮酒行为的污名化是很重要的。
