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The Parents Trying to Teach Their Teens to Drink Responsibly

The Wall Street Journal profiles parents running home drinking lessons, while researchers say teens allowed to drink at home tend to drink more heavily elsewhere.

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  1. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentThe Wall Street Journal profiles parents who teach their teenagers to drink responsibly, at home, on purpose, as a kind of lesson.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOkay, but the pitch sounds reasonable. Learn with supervision, skip the sketchy basement version.

  3. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentLindsay Squeglia at the Medical University of South Carolina says, quote, research over the past couple of decades has really shown that is not true.

  4. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAdolescents allowed to drink at home tend to drink more outside it.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentSo the lesson works great, as long as the student never leaves the house.

  6. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentAnd thirty-one states let parents provide alcohol to minors, according to the Journal as cited by Yahoo.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThirty-one.

  8. Dr. Nina Byte · Tech & Science CorrespondentWhich makes it a driving school where the instructor is also the hazard. I see you.

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