Drinking Education

[Jenny A]

That's right. You can't prevent her from abusing alcohol, but the science would suggest that having her drink at home in preparation for "the real world" is ineffective at best, and at worst makes the risk factor for alcohol abuse greater.

I don't and never did disagree that alcohol is "freely available". So is cocaine you know.

It's not nearly as cut and dried as that:

Research on parents' role in underage drinking has been limited. A survey of 6,245 U.S. teens, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health in 2004, found that adults play a very important role in teen drinking—but in different ways. Teens who attended a party where alcohol was supplied by a parent were twice as likely to have engaged in binge drinking and twice as likely to be regular drinkers. But teens who drank along with their parents were only one-third as likely to binge and half as likely to be regular drinkers.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB1000142405...0879004132

I'm not planning a party. Or to get drunk with her either.