Saturday, April 30, 2011

Not News: Teens Don't Need Parents as "Drinking Buddies"

From a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article:

Parents who let their kids drink when supervised – because they think it's safer than an outright ban on underage drinking – may want to rethink their approach due to a new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Co-authored by University of Washington professor Richard Catalano, the study found that teens who drank with adult supervision had more drinking-related problems than teens raised with a zero-tolerance attitude.

"Kids need parents to be parents and not drinking buddies," Barbara McMorris, the study's lead researcher, said in a statement. McMorris is a senior research associate at the School of Nursing at the University of Minnesota....

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