Is Alcoholism Genetic?

Daughters of Alcoholics are much more

statistically likely to marry alcoholics

we don't know why that is we don't know

if they find men who are drinking and

because they're accustomed to that they

pick those men or we don't know if they

covertly reinforce their husbands for

drinking to the point where they become

alcoholic but it's such a widespread

phenomena that if you're doing genetic

analysis of the transmission of

alcoholism you have to take into account

this issue of assortive mating