Most parents know when teens host drinking parties

By Ronnie Cohen (Reuters Health) - The vast majority of teenagers who hosted underage drinking parties in their California homes said their parents knew their guests were illegally consuming alcohol, researchers report. “When we typically think about teen parties, we think about the kids drinking secretly,” lead researcher Bettina Friese told Reuters Health. “I was quite surprised how many parents knew about the alcohol and also that parents were willing to take that risk,” said Friese, a sociologist at the Prevention Research Center in Oakland, California. ...



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