Blame Your Mother For Your Drinking Problem
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A British think tank has found out the following after studying 18,000 people for a 30 year period:
The study found that at the age of 16, teenagers were mainly influenced by their peers in how much they drank, while their parents’ attitudes towards alcohol appeared to show little impact.
Yet by the age of 34, the likelihood that they were “binge drinking” rose in line with how much they had thought, as a child, that their mother drank.
Apparently, this has to do with fathers drinking outside the home, where as mothers were more likely to drink in the home, in front of the children. Finally, something else to blame on a parent.
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