Ten Benefits of Frequent Family Dinners
The more often children and
teens eat dinner with their families, the less
likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.
Compared to kids who have fewer than three
family dinners per week, children and teens
who have frequent family dinners are:
1. At 70 percent lower risk
for substance abuse
2. Half as likely to try
cigarettes
3. Half as likely to be
daily cigarette smokers
4. Half as likely to try
marijuana
5. One third less likely to
try alcohol
6. Half as likely to get
drunk monthly
7. Likelier to get better
grades in school
8. Less likely to have
friends who drink alcohol and use marijuana
9. Likelier to have parents
who take responsibility for teen drug use
10. Almost 40 percent
likelier to say future drug use will never
happen
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