Focus on Parents
Large Differences Between Moms and Dads On Perceptions of Risk, Strong Disapproval, and More When it comes to attitudes towards underage drinking, there is a vast gender divide. Mothers are much more inclined than fathers to view things like impaired driving, binge drinking, and consumption of alcohol and/or marijuana as high risk to teens generally – and to express strong disapproval of their own teen engaging in these behaviors. In many cases, the differences stretch to 20 or even 30 percentage points on these measures. The narrowest gap is on viewing marijuana as high risk, where 12 percentage points separate moms from dads. Mothers differ from fathers on behaviors related to underaged drinking, as well. In fact, roughly eight in 10 (77%) mothers say they “never” allow their teen to consume alcohol – almost 20 percentage points higher than fathers (59%). Fathers are more inclined to say they allow their teens to drink “fairly often” (17% vs. 3%).
Fairly often From time to time
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Underlining (X) represents a statistically higher figure at the 95% confidence level.
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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