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01-27-2018, 11:10 AM
PARIS: Parents who give their teens alcohol, even to teach them how to drink responsibly, are more likely to do harm than good, according to a six-year study in Australia, published Thursday.
?Parental provision of alcohol is associated with risk, not with protection,? said lead author Richard Mattick, a professor at the University of New South Wales.?Parents should avoid supplying alcohol to their teenagers if they wish to reduce the risk of alcohol-related harms,? he said in a statement.
Mattick and colleagues monitored nearly 2,000 teens aged 12 to 18 in three Australian cities, along with their parents, over a six year period, with participants completing detailed questionnaires every year. At the start ? when the teenagers were 13 years old on average ? only 15 percent accessed alcohol from their parents. By the end, when they were nearly 18, some 57 percent did so.
The proportion of kids who said they had zero access ? from parents or other sources ? dropped over the same six-year period from four-fifths to one-fifth.The researchers also tracked the incidence of alcohol-related problems, including binge drinking and symptoms of alcohol abuse.At the end of the study, 25 percent of the teens given alcohol by their parents admitted to binge drinking, compared to 62 percent for those who got booze only from outside the home, such as friends or illegal purchase. The rate of self-reported binge-drinking climbed to 81 percent for teens who had procured alcohol from parents as well as other sources.At the same time, however, researchers noted that teenagers supplied with alcohol only by their parents were twice as likely to access it from additional sources in the following year.
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?Parental provision of alcohol is associated with risk, not with protection,? said lead author Richard Mattick, a professor at the University of New South Wales.?Parents should avoid supplying alcohol to their teenagers if they wish to reduce the risk of alcohol-related harms,? he said in a statement.
Mattick and colleagues monitored nearly 2,000 teens aged 12 to 18 in three Australian cities, along with their parents, over a six year period, with participants completing detailed questionnaires every year. At the start ? when the teenagers were 13 years old on average ? only 15 percent accessed alcohol from their parents. By the end, when they were nearly 18, some 57 percent did so.
The proportion of kids who said they had zero access ? from parents or other sources ? dropped over the same six-year period from four-fifths to one-fifth.The researchers also tracked the incidence of alcohol-related problems, including binge drinking and symptoms of alcohol abuse.At the end of the study, 25 percent of the teens given alcohol by their parents admitted to binge drinking, compared to 62 percent for those who got booze only from outside the home, such as friends or illegal purchase. The rate of self-reported binge-drinking climbed to 81 percent for teens who had procured alcohol from parents as well as other sources.At the same time, however, researchers noted that teenagers supplied with alcohol only by their parents were twice as likely to access it from additional sources in the following year.
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