How much do your parents drink?

1–3 beers? after work?
Yeah same with my dad, I don’t think thats abnormal or a problem.
If you want to believe otherwise you will find surveys, religious websites and vague reports out there on the net claiming that amount is chronic alcoholism, but Nah.

@Odysseus – beer, wine, and scotch with the occasional margarita, ha.

My Dad has about five beers a month, give or take.

I think this question might be a joke.

Dad’s at least 3 beers a night. Hard liquor only occasionally if out to dinner. Never shots. He’s very healthy. Mom doesn’t drink.

@ihatemusic it most certaintly is not.

@Paradox1 Cool.

My mum never drinks because she’s diabetic. My dad only ever has one beer a week, with his Sunday dinner. I think his drinking is below average though. Both my parents are elderly.

Me personally (I’m 44), I drink around 6–8 beers a week.

My dad drinks, I don’t know, rarely. He may have a beer with dinner on occasion. Or a glass of scotch at a party or special gathering.
My mother is drunk every day, more or less.

I only remember my parents drinking if they went out to dinner, or there were guests for dinner. There was alcohol in the house, but it was to be offered to guests—it cost too much money to just drink it for no reason.

Here’s three generations of data for your study.
My parents are both gone but they drank very little. When they went out socially they might have one. I remember they kept a beer in the refrigerator in case we had guests. It sat there forever. They had liquor, again for guests, that sat at least 30 years in a cabinet in the living room until I had to clean out the house. I never had the desire to steal any when I was a kid and clearly they never had the desire to drink it. Alcohol was for guests.

I will have on average 1 to 2 glasses of wine per week to be sociable. Now that I think about it, that estimate is too high. I have not had any alcohol since the one glass of champagne during New Years and the time before that was Thanksgiving. I do enjoy going to wine tasting events. Two per year.

I have one son who never drinks and another who has one beer per night.

They drank quite modestly, I believe, though I do recall clearly my mother being quite tipsy at a party they threw when I was very young, and feeling very nervous about it. One of the best gifts they gave me when I was in my teens was the request that I not drink outside the house, but that if I wanted to try it at home I could. From then on, alcohol was never something I much cared for, and remains so to this day. Thanks, Mom and Dad!

I’m in pretty much the same situation as @TheOnlyNeffie. My mom is drunk all the time. My dad used to have a drink after work most days, and a few beers (or more) on weekends. However, he’s been recently diagnosed with Ménière’s disease (a disorder of the inner ear) and so he rarely drinks now. His balance has been affected severely by his condition and so the tipsy effects of alcohol are more intense for him now.

I don’t think it’s abnormal or unhealthy for an adult to have a drink or two (or even three) every day.

I think both my mum and dad (who live seperately) have, on average, one glass of wine a day (usually with an evening meal), in the summer my dad will have a cold lager. My stepdad probably drinks a bit more, he loves his red wine. Personally I can’t stand wine.

My father was Russian-Armenian and drank a LOT his entire life (he was very much that kind of macho) – eventually, he died of colon cancer (for which consumption of alcohol is a huge risk factor) and even during his tx, he didn’t stop drinking. My mother never drinks much, she has Hep C and therefore shouldn’t but also has VERY low tolerance (gets drunk after one shot of wine, it’s hilarious).

My parents rarely drank. If they went out to dinner, also a rare event, one or the other might have one or two drinks. (Meaning that the non-drinker drove home.) In the summer, if it was very hot, my mom would have a beer after mowing the lawn. Oh, and New Year’s Eve brought out a bottle of champagne that wouldn’t get finished.

My father rarely drinks, maybe a glass of wine at a restaurant or social function but never a cocktail. My mother would love to have a nice glass of wine each night but her diabetes makes that a no-no.