DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have recently found out that our 14-year-old granddaughter, a freshman in high school, is being encouraged to drink, or more accurately, “chug,” beer out of cans with her stepdad at parties and social gatherings he has been having at their house. Our son, the girl’s biological father, is very … Read more
Cheers to your wealth. Binge drinking might not be the recipe for failure that it’s portrayed as in popular media. Recent studies have shown that heavy boozing during one’s youth could improve one’s chances of success later in life. In his new book “The Beauty and Pain of Drugs,” Norwegian sociologist Willy Pedersen of the University … Read more
Barcelona’s infamous bar-hopping tours are now officially off the menu. The Spanish party hotspot has forbidden pub crawls citywide, banning the promotion, organization, or running of any kind of guided drinking tour — all day, every day for at least the next four years. City officials say the move aims to “ensure peaceful coexistence, safeguard … Read more
Prosecc-no. With the rise of mocktails and alcohol-free beverages as an alternative for those trying to cut back on drinking, whether or not those under 21 years old can legally consume these non-alcoholic drinks comes into question. One mom was faced with this question when her 13-year-old daughter came back from a friend’s birthday party … Read more
Cheers? On a recent appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show,” actress Kristen Bell, 43, revealed that her two daughters with husband Dax Shepard — Lincoln, 9, and Delta, 8 — sometimes enjoy drinking nonalcoholic beer. The children’s enjoyment of the rather adult beverage stems from their earliest days when she and Shepard, 48, would take … Read more