Problem parents -- those who fail to monitor their children's school night activities, safeguard their prescription drugs, address the problem of drugs in their children's schools, and set good examples -- increase the risk that their 12- to 17-year old children will smoke, drink, and use illegal and prescription drugs, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XIII: Teens and Parents, the 13th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.
"This year's survey reveals that too many mothers and fathers are problem parents who fail to take essential steps to prevent their kids from smoking, drinking or using drugs. By their actions -- and inactions -- by failing to become part of the solution, these parents become part of the problem of teen alcohol and drug abuse," said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA's chairman and president and former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. "Indeed, these problem parents enable -- some even encourage -- their 12- to 17-year olds to use and abuse tobacco, alcohol, and illegal and prescription drugs."
Problem Parents & School Night Socializing
The CASA survey found that the later teens are out of the house hanging out with friends on school nights (Monday through Thursday), the likelier alcohol and drug use will be going on among them.
Almost half (46 percent) of 12- to 17-year olds report leaving their house to hang out with friends on school nights. Among these teens:
-- 50 percent who come home after 10:00 p.m. say that drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or other drug use occurs;
-- 29 percent who come home after 8:00 p.m. and before 10:00 p.m. say that drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or other drug use occurs.
But only 14 percent of parents say their teens usually leave the house to hang out with friends on school nights. "Parents who are not aware of such conduct by their teens, or are not candid about it, are problem parents whose failure to monitor their children's school night activities increases the risk of drug or alcohol use," said Califano.

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1) Whoever made up that title needs to be slapped.

2) I've got a buddy who tells me parenting stories.
He's got three boys, and he tells me some of his "tricks" in keeping track of his kids.
Like how his kid's friends keep their own "myspace" pages, and will post IN ADVANCE their plans for alcohol parties and the like...
The bizarre thing (to me) is that they evidently CONTINUE to do it even though my friend has acted on that information in the past.

Forget snooping through your kid's room and invading the privacy by reading the diary.
Simply look it up online cause everybody's putting it up there...

3) I imagine most of this is "they did a study on the obvious" for most people...
But at least there are pretty numbers associated with it...

Just like most everythiong else in life, there's really only one major reason stuff get abused like this...

Because it's culturally celebrated...

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