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Ross Douthat is a New York Times columnist.

The Family That Drinks Together ...

By Ross Douthat
Sep 4 2007, 4:27 PM ET Comment

I'd always assumed that introducing kids to alcohol in the home, rather than trying to enforce our society's ridiculously draconian restrictions on teen drinking, made adolescents less prone to really stupid booze-related behavior. But it's good to have some cold hard statistical proof.

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