The Importance of Family Dinners II
National Center for Addiction & Substance Abuse

How often a family eats dinner together is a powerful indicator of whether a teen is likely to smoke, drink or use drugs and whether the teen is likely to perform better academically, according to a new report from The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University and sponsored by TV Land and Nick at Nitefs Family Table. The study also reveals that teens and their parents wish they could have dinner together more often.


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