Parents Heavily Underestimate Kids' Substance Use
Last week's CESAR FAX revealed a gap between children's drug use and parents' awareness of said use. For 6th graders, 21% report alcohol use in the apst year whereas only 5% of parents of 6th graders believe their child had ever even tried alcohol. The gap shrinks with older children: for 12th graders, its 68% that use and 41% of parents that know about it. The trends are similar for other drugs.
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Newsflash: most kids hide their drug use from parents.
An interesting correlation to check would be between frequency of use and parents' awareness.
Posted by: daksya | August 19, 2006 03:58 PM