Parenting style strongly affects drinking, study says (not the other way around?)

[Bucky]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14696975

Parenting style strongly affects drinking, Demos says

Parenting style is one of the strongest influences on how a child drinks as a young adult, a study suggests.

Independent think tank Demos studied data based on more than 30,000 children born in the UK in the last 40 years.

It found that a "tough love" style of parenting was the best way to ensure children drank more responsibly when they were aged between 16 and 34.

The research also suggests that being too authoritarian with children could be as ineffectual as being too casual.