These need to be interpreted alongside data provided inTable 3 on adolescent occupations. Interviews with parents, primarily mothers and mother-figures, strongly suggest that drinking is understood to be detrimental to parenting but difficult, if not impossible, to relinquish owing to poor mental health and lack of other coping mechanisms. Many demonstrated distress and inner conflict when articulating their knowledge of the huge costs of their drinking habits to both the children's current well-being.