How does teen drinking affect the family specifically?

Host: How does teen drinking affect the family specifically? Judith Welles Cousins: Teen drinking affects the family in some very serious and significant ways. The most obvious is or what families feel the most is an increase in tension and conflict in the family and that becomes true on both sides. There is more anxiety, more worry and more anger, more confusion, more bewilderment on the part of both the teens and the parents.