London: In a recent study, experts said that middle-class children are most likely to use alcohol before reaching their teenage as most of them who do so were getting it from their homes.
In comparison with all the economic groups the figure among the middle class was found to be twice i.e. 35 per cent, The Telegraph reported.
Some children used alcohol secretly, searching drinks in their elders’ cabinet. However, a sizeable number of parents allowed their children to drink as they were of the view that it would make them mature towards drinking.
The Ipsos Mori poll for charity Drinkaware surveyed more than 500 parents from the social groups ABC1 and their children, aged between 10 and 17.
The findings contrast with NHS figures which showed that across all social classes, 19.9 per cent of 12-year-olds had had a full glass of alcohol.
The majority of parents in the Drinkaware study thought it was inevitable that children would drink before they turned 16, while one third thought it was normal for them to do so.
Chris Sorek, the charity’s chief executive said: “These children who are drinking at the age of 12 are not walking into a pub to buy a pint, and they are not getting alcohol from off-licenses.
“In the main, they are drinking at home, because their parents think teenage drinking is inevitable, and think that this might be the way to introduce it sensitively.”
In fact, research had found that children were more likely to develop an alcohol problem if they were not set clear boundaries, he added.
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