Mark Jayne is Professor of Human Geography at Cardiff University, UK. He is a social and cultural geographer whose research interests include consumption, the urban order, city cultures and cultural economy. Mark has published around 75 journal articles, book chapters and official reports and has undertaken empirical research in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, USA and China. Mark is author of Cities and Consumption (Routledge, 2005), and co-author of Alcohol, Drinking, Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces (Ashgate, 2011). Mark is also co-editor of City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City (Ashgate, 2004), Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge, 2006), Urban Theory Beyond the West: A World of Cities (Routledge, 2012) and Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives (Routledge 2015). Gill Valentine is Professor of Human Geography and Pro-vice Chancellor for Social Sciences at the University of Sheffield, UK. Gill has secured over £4m of research funding, published 15 books, nearly 200 journal articles and book chapters, 10 official reports and supervised over 20 PhD students. Gill was Co-founder and Co-editor of Social and Cultural Geography, as well as Co-editor of Gender Place and Culture.

Contents: Introduction; Attitudes and practices; Rules and guidance; 'Drinking is for grown ups'; 'Do as I say, or do as I do?'; Conclusions; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.

Drawing together international research from the fields of geography, alcohol studies, sociology, psychology and childhood studies, Jayne and Valentine explore children's understandings and experiences of alcohol consumption and the role of alcohol in family life. Chapters address both extra-familial norms about parenting and drinking cultures which are generated in wider society (through law/regulation, media/advertising and social networks etc.) and intra-familial norms, including the modelling behaviour of family members, attitudes to alcohol, drinking habits and practices, rules and guidance, and initiating children to drinking.