Concerns over growing number of parents giving their teenagers alcohol

There are concerns a growing number of parents are giving their teenagers alcohol, with new research finding more than 40 per cent of 14 to 17-year-olds who drink are given the booze by their parents.

That figure was one-third six years ago.

While the “Mediterranean model” has long been praised, leading adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg told Ross and Russel there was no safe amount of alcohol to give a teenager.

“I used to think there was, but the research is crystal clear,” he said.

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