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Allowing Kids to Sip Wine Occasionally Is a Bad Idea

| April 2, 2015 Comment

Allowing Kids to Sip Wine Occasionally Is a Bad Idea – Researchers shows that middle-school kids who have an occasional sip of wine or beer are more likely to drink alcohol as teens.

Researchers at Brown University followed 560 sixth-graders in Rhode Island over three years and found that those who had an occasional sip of wine or beer were five times more likely to have a full drink in their teens. They are also four times more likely to get drunk or indulge in binge drinking.

The youngest age at which some kids were introduced to alcohol was at age 3, but the average age was 10. Wine was the most common drink, followed by beer, and the drink was mostly offered by a parent or other family member.

According to lead researcher Kristina Jackson, the European way of allowing kids to sip wine once in a while to make them responsible drinkers later on may not work. At the same time, she points out that kids who get an early taste of wine are not “doomed.” “We’re still only talking about a quarter of the sippers reporting a full drink by ninth grade and less than 10 percent are reporting getting drunk.”

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