U.S. teens that eat fewer than three family dinners per week are more than twice as likely to say they expect to try drugs in the future, new research shows. Scientists at the University of Florida College of Medicine found that 72% of teens think eating dinner frequently with their parents is “very” or “fairly important.” Eating frequent dinners was described as five to seven times per week. Those who have infrequent family dinners are:
· Twice as likely to have used tobacco.
· Almost twice as likely to have used alcohol.
· Are one-and-a-half times more likely to have used marijuana.
