Young children are most likely to copy their parents' drinking habits, no matter if excellent or undesirable, it has been claimed.
The Department for Youngsters, Families and Schools has commissioned a study which suggested youngsters from heavy-drinking households are additional probably to use alcohol themselves.
In addition, the report found that half of young consumers who have drunk alcohol at some point had been offered it by their parents, a statistic which has raised concern among lots of authorities, like Andrew McNeill, director of the Institute of Alcohol Studies.
He stated that the findings confirm what has been known for ages: "In general, but with some exceptions, young children tend to turn out to be the sort of drinkers their mothers and fathers were, although there is also a generational impact."
Mr McNeill pointed out that this is where a complete generation may very well have a tendency to drink more, or much less, than their mother and father because of modifications in culture or affordability of alcohol, but that the existing culture is certainly leaning towards better consumption.
The DCFS study discovered that eight out of 10 parents had no pre-planned techniques to tackle irresponsible drinking by their little ones, with a single in 4 youngsters saying their mothers and fathers had never ever talked to them about alcohol.
Mr McNeill mentioned that the statistics are a concern, especially the acquiring that one in 10 mothers and fathers have no idea whether or not their kid has ever consumed alcohol.
"A single point worth producing is that this knocks the notion of forbidden fruit on the head. A single of the exceptions is that some children of heavy/problem drinking mother and father react against it, and drink small or nothing at all themselves," he said.
Nevertheless, the specialist stated that the children of mother and father who have a drinking difficulty do nevertheless have a raised threat irrespective of their emotions on the topic.
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