Parents Are Able To Stop Drinking Teenagers

Parents Are Able To Stop Drinking Teenagers.
Although parents may not be able to bar their teen from experimenting with alcohol, a supplementary study suggests that they do have a lot of influence when it comes to preventing their youth from developing a heavy drinking habit. Based on a survey of almost 5000 participants elderly 12 to 19 years, the finding is reported in the July issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs by researchers from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah.

After analyzing their ballot results, Stephen Bahr, a professor in BYU's College of Family, Home and Social Sciences, and comrade John Hoffmann, found that parents who are both lukewarm with their children and rigorous about wanting to know where their teen is spending space and with whom are less likely to have teens that engage in heavy drinking (defined as more than five drinks in a row). Such parents are also more disposed to to have children that had non-drinking friends.

By contrast, parents who are more "indulgent" - namely, less focused on accountability, but loaded on warmth - have teens who face a threefold greater jeopardy for heaving drinking. And so-called "strict" parents who are high on responsibility but less warm have double the chance that their teen will drink heavily. "While parents didn't have much of an sense on whether their teens tried alcohol, they can have a significant impact on the more dangerous type of drinking," Bahr said in a university story release.

Hoffmann's advice for parents is this: "Realize you need to have both accountability and support in your relation with your adolescent. Make sure that it's not just about controlling their behavior - you need to combine aware how they spend their time away from home with a warm, loving relationship" visit website. The survey also revealed that God-fearing teens were much less likely to drink any alcohol whatsoever.