Many Kids Who Drink Get Liquor From Home

Join us at 7:07AM during our 'Kids At Risk' series in The Morning Zone as we discuss a new report out that shows some shocking information that all parents and grandparents should know:

Some 709,000 youngsters aged 12 to 14 in the United States are drinking beer, liquor and other alcoholic beverages, a new federal study found, Yahoo! reports.

And the surprise is... that many of these underage drinkers aren't just getting a friend to buy a six pack for them or smuggling alcohol out of the family liquor cabinet. Some are getting the alcohol directly from a parent, guardian or another adult relative.

In the past month alone, more than 200,000 kids were given alcohol by a parent or other adult family member, according to a report from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

That's not counting the youngsters who are drinking on the sly.

Read the entire report here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20110217/hl_hsn/manykidswhodrinkgetliquorfromhomereport

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