UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds
Study by World Health Organization shows more than half of children in Britain had drunk alcohol by age 13
Study by World Health Organization shows more than half of children in Britain had drunk alcohol by age 13
Archived version: https://archive.ph/mtJSB
The study seems to be about first time having alcohol, but the reporting is equating this with alcohol abuse. I don't think this is very good reporting at all. Your parents letting you have half a glass of champagne at a cousin's wedding would seem to count here, but is a wildly different experience to the one implied by this reporting.
I absolutely believe the UK has a youth drinking problem, but I don't believe this study is necessarily one the media should be pointing to to prove it.
Even without reading the article, you can see they're phrasing the highest rate of people who'd drunk once by 13 as the worst rate of child alcohol consumption. A lot of that consumption would've been legal and nothing untoward.
The reportage here may not be doing the study justice. They most likely used other metrics.
I notice the BBC on same subject talks about children actually being drunk and about "last 30 days" both of which are better proxies.
I'd bet on the French, or Finnish
There’s only one answer. Whippets for kids. /s
