Hopkins Cassandra, Haugland Siri Håvås, Greenfield Thomas K, Tamutienė Ilona, Hettige Siri, Laslett Anne-Marie
Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
Department of Psychosocial Health, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway.
Int J Alcohol Drug Res. 2024 Dec 12;12(2):85-100. doi: 10.7895/ijadr.523.
Research has examined a range of impacts of women's drinking on children. However, fewer studies have addressed the consequences of men's heavy drinking on children. This review aims to identify and describe men's behaviours and actions that arise from their drinking and are likely to cause harm to children, and the types of harms that stem from men's drinking that children experience.
Review articles from 1990 to September 2023 were included. Four health and social databases were searched for reviews that included terms relating to men, alcohol consumption, and child harms. From 1,873 identified articles, 19 articles met the criteria for inclusion.
Four broad topics were identified: relationships and families; violence and maltreatment; health, psychological and wellbeing impacts; and social and educational outcomes for children. Children may experience both direct and indirect harms associated with men's drinking. The former includes examples where men's drinking was linked to disinhibition, aggression, and physical assault. In the latter, men were absent resulting in being emotionally unavailable due to drinking. Internalising and externalising behaviours were common outcomes for children exposed to men's drinking. Contextual factors such as poverty, cultural norms and patriarchal influences were interrelated and sometimes exacerbated harm to children from men's drinking.
This review highlights the immediate and longer-lasting consequences of men's drinking for children, including family conflict, maltreatment, and emotional distress. Future studies should address gender disparities and consider the social factors present in cases where children are exposed to men's drinking.
已有研究探讨了女性饮酒对儿童的一系列影响。然而,针对男性酗酒对儿童影响的研究较少。本综述旨在识别并描述男性饮酒引发的、可能对儿童造成伤害的行为和举动,以及儿童所经历的源于男性饮酒的伤害类型。
纳入1990年至2023年9月的综述文章。检索了四个健康与社会数据库,查找包含与男性、饮酒及儿童伤害相关术语的综述。在1873篇已识别文章中,有19篇符合纳入标准。
确定了四个广泛主题:人际关系与家庭;暴力与虐待;健康、心理及幸福感影响;以及儿童的社会和教育成果。儿童可能会经历与男性饮酒相关的直接和间接伤害。前者包括男性饮酒与行为失控、攻击行为和身体攻击相关的例子。后者则是男性因饮酒而缺席,导致情感上无法陪伴孩子。内化和外化行为是接触男性饮酒的儿童常见的后果。贫困、文化规范和父权制影响等背景因素相互关联,有时会加剧男性饮酒对儿童的伤害。
本综述强调了男性饮酒对儿童造成的即时和长期后果,包括家庭冲突、虐待和情感困扰。未来的研究应解决性别差异问题,并考虑儿童接触男性饮酒情况中存在的社会因素。