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David Goodhue - AHN News ReporterHanover, NH, United States (AHN) - New research from Dartmouth College suggests keeping kids away from R-rated movies could significantly delay when they start drinking alcohol.
The researchers studied 3,600 New England middle school children, and said in a statement that among participants who said their parents never let them watch R movies, few started drinking over the next two years.
Of the group whose parents more carefully monitored their movie watching, 3 percent said they took up drinking when they were questions 13 to 26 months after the initial survey.
But among the group who said their parents let them watch R-rated films "sometimes," 19 percent began drinking, and 25 percent of the group who said their parents "always" let them watch the restricted movies began drinking.





