Okay, here's more.. The study is linked on the Guardian article.
This study is allegedly based on the..,
European model of introducing children to alcohol by allowing them sips of their alcoholic drinks.
Here are the conclusions summarized:
After adjusting for factors known to influence adolescent drinking, including family structure, family conflict and personality traits, the researchers found parents supplying alcohol doubled the likelihood that teens would be drinking full serves of alcohol one year later.
But those who were supplied alcohol from sources other than their parents, such as by friends or siblings, were three times more likely to binge drink.
“These parentally-supplied children also consumed fewer drinks on a typical drinking occasion,” the study found.
However, the authors said: “Parents should be advised that supply of alcohol may increase children’s drinking.”
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“This study answers a question that many parents ask: does the European model of providing alcohol to children work?,” she said. “The answer is no, and it doesn’t work in Europe either.”
So unless a person is satisfied that at the very least it does not necessarily lead to
binge drinking, then I guess some parents might not think twice about doing what seems to be consistently found as potentially harmful, for several social and biological reasons.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/201 ... k-as-teens