Tim Worstall

Teenage Drinking

Now here’s a shocker:

Teenagers who drink alcohol with their parents are less likely to binge
drink, according to a survey of 10,000 children which backs the
continental style of introducing teenagers to small amounts of alcohol
early.

There’s always the fools of course:

Today’s findings contrast sharply with a recent call from Alcohol
Concern to prosecute parents who give their under-15s alcohol.
Professor Bellis said that this evidence showed that approach was
flawed. "I don’t think prosecuting parents is the way forward. It’s
possibly the worst thing you can do to a child at that stage."

Sigh.

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    Maybe this is because parents who drink a little alcohol with their children – at meals or whatever, are normally better-educated, and more middle-class. Meaning the drinking bit is just a correlation, and not a ’cause’ of better behaviour.

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    Perhaps having more books in the house makes teenagers less likely to binge drink. Or rather, having more books in the house correlates with less binge drinking.

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