Parents: Not So Ignorant, After All
November 8th, 2007 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
For years, parents have been berated in anti-drug ads for their supposed ignorance about the drug-ingesting habits of their children, but a new study suggests that many parents aren’t so myopic, after all.
Medical News Today reported Oct. 25 that researchers from the Research Institute on Addictions at the University of Buffalo found that 82 percent of parents accurately identified cigarette smoking by their children, with similar success in reporting the use of alcohol (86 percent) and marijuana use (86 percent). Parents were least successful in determining if their children were using illicit drugs other than marijuana (72 percent).
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