Sunday, August 5, 2012

Children's memory - the cause of alcoholism

Passion for alcohol often develops on the background of childhood memories, as the scientists found. Children, whose parents drink, much more often and themselves begin to abuse alcohol and become victims of alcoholism.

Parents should not regularly appear in the eyes of the children with a glass of wine or gin and tonic in the evenings. Children's memory carefully recorded moments like this, because the child will always need to be an example to follow. The image of the father or mother with alcohol in the hands of the deposited in the children's memory and will be imprinted in the subconscious, so that as they grow older, children and themselves involuntarily drawn to alcoholic drinks. The origins of adolescent alcoholism.

If the parents regularly applied to alcohol, the children can try alcohol is already at the age of 13, as it was found out by experts from the independent research Fund Joseph roundtree. The Foundation conducted the survey on the background of growing concerns in the UK about the constantly growing problem of teenage alcoholism.

It turned out that 25% of young people aged 13-14 years have not once were applied to alcohol. And to 15-16 years the taste of vodka or wine will know more than half the children. Of these, a quarter drank at least five-six doses in the last time, when touched to alcohol. This is significantly higher than the recommended adult daily limit.


To 16 years 80% of adolescents have experienced a state of strong alcoholic intoxication, and in many cases they got drunk consciously. And although in this regard the crucial role model belongs to friends and boyfriend adolescents, the role of the family is also important. In particular, researchers have found that the degree of negative consequences of monitoring of the drinking dad or mom equivalent of being, as if the first dose of alcohol child personally tried in six years.

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