Focus on Teens
Large Differences Between Teen Girls and Boys On Perceptions of Acceptance – and Often Risk, as well The gender divide seen among parents shows up among teens, as well. Teen girls are significantly more inclined than their teen boy counterparts to view impaired driving and binge drinking as high risk. Moreover, they are more likely to believe both their friends and their parents would strongly disapprove of all behaviors surveyed. The largest gender gaps pertain to level of friends’ approval of impaired driving: 15 percentage points separate teen girls and teen boys in believing their friends would strongly disapprove of both driving while impaired and riding in the vehicle of an impaired driver. Teen boys are twice as likely as teen girls to report their parents allowing them to consume alcohol without them (10% vs. 5%).
Girls Boys
Underlining (X) represents a statistically higher figure at the 95% confidence level.
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Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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