New research shows that parents influence their child's likelihood of involvement with drugs, alcohol and risky sexual activity even after their child leaves for college. Specifically, students who said their fathers were in the loop had a lower likelihood of doing drugs or engaging in risky sexual behaviors. When mothers were in the know, students were less likely to drink alcohol. The protective effect of mothers' awareness was more pronounced when the students also felt close to their mom. Under those circumstances, the researchers found that students were less likely to be involved in any of the three risk behavior categories studied: drugs, alcohol and risky sexual activity.

Families are bad for the sex, drug, and alcohol industry? It isn't so much the commodity, as the culture as we discussed earlier with guns. Drugs, (since I mean the larger set of physiology altering substances that means alchohol too) and sex have their place. Knowing the value of their proper use, and the devaluation of ourselves that happens from their improper use, is a chief purview of parents to relay to the next generation.


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