shocking! I would have never guessed: Parental monitoring may curb teen pot use

[The Straight Story]

Parental monitoring may curb teen pot use


CLAREMONT, Calif., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Forty-two percent of U.S. high school seniors admit experimenting with marijuana but U.S. researchers say parental monitoring can decrease marijuana use.

Psychologists Andrew Lac and William Crano of the Claremont Graduate University reviewed numerous studies to examine the connection between parental monitoring and adolescent marijuana use.

Lac and Crano selected 17 studies from the literature that contained data on more than 35,000 participants.

The review, published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, found there is a strong, reliable link between parental monitoring -- when parents know where their children are, who they are with and what they are doing -- and decreased marijuana usage in adolescents. This was most strongly seen the female-only studies.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/11/17/Parental-monitoring-may-curb-teen-pot-use/UPI-22371258435013/

I am glad the bright minds of tomorrow spent a lot on college, lest we would not have such insightful research done.

And note they say 'MAY'.....

[BlueJazz]

1. My Goodness! What will they think of next?...ummm..let's see..

If I watch a child they probably will not do something I don't approve of.

Damn..things are so complicated these days.

[trumad]

2. LOL

Yeah as opposed to not monitoring your kids.

[Divine Discontent]

3. exactly... an old friend would yell if his parents dared come into his room, I never understood how

he could get away with that - and he was a major blazer that stored his goods in his room! lol

[hobbit709]

4. didn't work with me.