Bottling It Up: The Next Generation found that more than 5,000 people who used the charity’s alcohol treatment services last year were parents.
On average, mothers using Turning Point’s services were drinking 24 units a week, and fathers 33 units – the equivalent of three bottles of wine or up to 15 pints of beer.
Some mothers were drinking more than 70 units a week, or nearly eight bottles of wine. and this drinking was often carried out in secret when their children had gone to bed.
More than a third of Turning Point’s alcohol treatment service users are mothers; some told the charity that they turned to alcohol in response to the pressure to be "supermums".
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