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Alcohol Consumption and Geographies of Childhood and Family Life

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Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being

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This chapter considers the transmission of drinking cultures within families. In particular we highlight the differential and discursive construction of the home as a space where parents/carers are happy to introduce children to alcohol in a “safe” environment in opposition to public spaces which they consider to be locations where alcohol consumption is associated with violence and disorder. Presenting empirical research undertaken in the UK, we argue that parents/carers miss the opportunity to teach children about the range of drinking practices and spaces they may experience throughout their lives and fail to engage with their children about wider social responsibilities as potential drinkers in the future.

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  1. School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, CF10 3WA, Cardiff, Wales, UK

    Mark Jayne

  2. School of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

    Gill Valentine

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  1. Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

    Bethan Evans

  2. Centre of Children and Youth, The University of Northampton, Northampton, United Kingdom

    John Horton

  3. Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Tracey Skelton

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This chapter draws on portions of empirical material and updates and advances previous arguments published elsewhere. The authors and publishers would like to thank copyright holders for permission to reproduce material as follows: Valentine, G., Jayne, M. and Gould, M. (2011) “Do as I say, not as I do: the affective space of family life and the transmission of drinking cultures.” Environment and Planning A, 44(1): 776–779, Reproduced by permission of Pion Limited, London; Valentine, G., Jayne, M. and Gould, M. (2014) “The proximity effect: the role of the affective space of family life in shaping children’s knowledge about alcohol and its social and health implications,” Childhood, 21(1): 103–118, Reproduced by permission of Sage Publications Ltd, London, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Singapore and Washington DC andJayne, M., Valentine, G. and Gould, M. (2012b) “Family life and alcohol consumption: The transmission of ‘public’ and ‘private’ drinking cultures,” Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 19(3): 192–200, Reproduced by permission of Routledge, London and New York.

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Jayne, M., Valentine, G. (2015). Alcohol Consumption and Geographies of Childhood and Family Life. In: Evans, B., Horton, J., Skelton, T. (eds) Play, Recreation, Health and Well Being. Geographies of Children and Young People, vol 9. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-96-5_34-1

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