Ask Amy: Parents allow 17-year-old son to drink at home and teen’s grandmother is concerned

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They believe that he will become normalized to drinking and not consider it “forbidden fruit” when he goes away to college.

– Concerned GrandmaSurely these parents don’t imagine that their son will enter the binge-drinking atmosphere of the typical college campus limiting his own excess due to the sophistication he’s acquired by being a social drinker at home.

There are very few campuses where alcohol is considered “forbidden fruit.” Alcohol use is ritualized and used as a way to integrate into campus life.If you have alcoholism in the family, you should warn, educate, and urge this boy to be aware that alcohol use disorder runs in the family and that he is vulnerable.

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