In much of Europe children do experience alcohol, as part of family meals.
They seem to grow up with the knowledge that it should be respected, and not abused just as soon as you get the chance.
I've been to France and Italy numerous times, and have never seen drunk youths causing havoc, as we have here in the U.K.
My friend Milly's mother thought her daughter had become a raging alcoholic after drinking three glasses of wine in one evening, after having lived in London for three years.
