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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're French, and had our kids taste wine and other alcohols when they pretty young, because in many French families, this is what happens. They didn't like it. So now they're young adults and older teens, we drink extremely rarely (a couple of times a year, maybe), and the children don't usually join us, even though we'd have no problems if they did. I think we all lack the gene that makes humans like alcohol. It does nothing for us. We would definitely NOT be fine with frequent drinking. As PP said, it's not good for your health.
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Teens in France binge drink a lot more than American teens.  Most European countries are the same.   
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Not exactly. Teens in France self report more binge drinking in some data sets. But this makes sense because it is legal to drink at age 16 whereas American teens would be self reporting illegal activity. You would expect to see such a discrepancy.

You have to be careful about interpreting survey data.[/quote]

Maybe but these are anonymous surveys.  And in France the legal age to drink is 19.  You can only drink alcohol if you are with an adult legal guardian.  Hopefully no one is binge drinking with mom.  The rest of the European teens report binging a lot more than Americans.  [/quote]

It's 18 and no, you can definitely order a beer while in high school.[/quote]

It’s 18?  Ok but it’s not 16 anymore.   Countries raise age limits when there is a problem.

The US had a drunk driving problem which European countries did have I as bad as us.  So the US raised it back to 21 years old.   France and other countries saw binge drinking in teens so they increased their ages.   Some of them, like Germany and France, have exceptions depending on whatever.   French teens have problems with binge drinking.

In the US the raised drinking level to age 21 helped delay binge drinking.  [b]It also helped keep teens out of bars.[/b]  When the drinking age was 18 it was easy for a 14 year old to get a fake ID that was believable.  Now only older teens usually in college use fake IDs. Teen deaths in drunk driving went way down when the age to drink was raised  [/quote]

That was the main and pretty much only reason it was raised to 21. 
Though kids can still drink with parents in bars in some states, but at least the parent is there to keep them under control and not start any trouble.[/quote]

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