Posted by
Billy on Wednesday, April 28, 2010 1:30:06 PM
A new study suggests that parents can help keep their kids from drinking alcohol
by steering them away from R-rated movies.
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School questioned nearly 3,600
middle school children (5th-8th grade) in New England and followed up with many
of them about two years later. In the initial survey, those children reported
never drinking alcohol.
But in the follow-up interviews with roughly
two-thirds of that group, nearly a quarter who said they watched R-rated movies
"all the time" tried alcohol without their parents knowing.
(So what kids watch does impact them. Those of us who are on the right or follow faith based values or morals have been told time and time again that it doesn't matter what kids watch. Now we have this information to back up what some of us have been saying for years. Read more right here.)
