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Health Effects and Other Risks of Alcohol Use by Teens
Alcohol has a more profound and lasting effect on adolescents than it does on mature adults, who have completed their growth cycles. Abuse can disrupt the normal development of the body’s vital systems during adolescence, which can have lifelong effects.
Parents Modeling Behavior
If Marin youth are to grow up with a proper understanding of the effects of alcohol and the implications of excessive drinking, then they should be able to look to their parents for guidance — and parents should know that when they’re under the influence, their children can be influenced too.
The Research on Parents Who Allow Partying or “Look the Other Way”
Simply put, the premise that parents are keeping their teens “safe” when they provide a place to party and look the other way on alcohol and drug use by their teens, albeit well-intentioned, is a false one.