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'Clueless' parents get set straight: Lifestyle, grades are no guaranteeStudy says moms and dads are `parental palookas' who have no idea about the extent of their teens' drug and alcohol use.
Byline: Bonnie Miller Rubin
Aug. 17--At first glance, Samantha Tish, 15, who lives in a small town near the Wisconsin border, would seem insulated from drug and alcohol use.
She has good grades and a tight group of girlfriends whose weekend activities run to shopping and watching movies, rather than partying. But that doesn't mean that temptation isn't lurking everywhere.
"Most parents are clueless," she said. "They have no idea what goes on at parties ... or how drugs and alcohol are everywhere. Their kids are going to do what they want to do."
Tish's observation is supported by a survey released Thursday by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. Among the findings: One-third of teens and nearly half of 17-year-olds attend house parties where alcohol, marijuana and illegal drugs are plentiful--even when parents are actually in the home.
The head of CASA called the adults "parental palookas."
"Where are they?" asked Joseph A. Califano, CASA's chairman and president and former secretary of health,…
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