According to a report by the rowntree foundation teenagers are twice as likely to get drunk if their parents get drunk ..
BBC News - Parents' behaviour 'can influence teen drinking'
and it also says that the younger kids are introduced to alcohol the more likely theyre going to get drunk ...
now i can remember aged 7 drinking 'champagne' in otherwords babycham (can you call babycham alcohol
) .... i was allowed to have 2 or 3 of them .. when we had family parties at home at christmas or birthdays etc ... and being in the pub across the road with half a lager .. which lasted me all night ... and a glass of coke on the table .. if the police came in the coke was mine ....
aged about 11 or 12 ... and mum & dad was there ...
but yet i very rarely drink now ... when im in pubs or restaurants etc its orange and soda or britvic orange and lemonade .. ok in my younger days aged from 16 upwards i was out round accy town centre friday and saturday night ... and half a lager in the round ... broadway, corners, hope & anchor, bees knees, shifters/rumours etc .. but it wasnt often i was drunk ... that was when i graduated up to drinking shorts ...
but do you think kids are influenced by their parents about drinking alcohol they get drunk or might take the opposite view - see their mum & dad falling down, throwing up etc ... and say i dont want to be like that and not drink ... .