Okay, so good news first? Parents do actually have some influence over their kids' practice of risky behaviors like drinking and drugging and screwing,
even when the kids are college-age. A new study found that if moms and
dads are in the loop about what their offspring are doing, even when
the kids are off at the dorms, the kids were less likely to do risky
stuff like befriend a hooker and dance around in their underwear and
consume tons of liquor. (Actually I think that Risky Business
was about a teenager, not college kid, but you get the idea.)
Specifically, when dads knew about their lives kids were less likely to
have unsafe sex and use drugs; and when moms were in the know they were
less likely to drink until they puked.
Bad news?
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