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Originally Posted by KSig RC
So your kid is 'smart' enough to understand that something that's given to them in moderation doesn't need to be abused (or that moderation is better), even when genetic predisposition works pretty hard to overcome this ability to be moderate, but not smart enough to understand the dangers of hereditary alcoholism and the way to avoid the problems?
Makes sense.
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As Drolefille said, hereditary alcoholism is not absolute. As I said before, my husband has an alcoholic brother, and a father that died of alcoholism, and he manages moderation. I am not naieve enough to think that my daughter is never going to drink because she knows that she is predisposed to alcoholism. Honestly, would that have stopped you from drinking when you went to college? 18 year olds have the "invincible, nothing can happen to me" attitude, and ESPECIALLY if alcohol was the "forbidden fruit" are going to drink when they get to college. I'd rather let my daughter try alcohol at home, and find out AT HOME that she can't handle alcohol, then let her go to college and find out in the emergency room with alcohol poisoning, that she can't handle alcohol.
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