Reasons to drink

I grew up in a town where many of the parents drank alot. Not to say all parents did, but in all honesty, whether it was the rich adult trygin to get away from their problems, or the firefighter at their personal bar children aroudn my town were exposed to alchohol. My feeling towards this exposure was that the overall alchohol use not only effected the adult's personal children, but children all aroudn the town. Kids thoguht that to be cool and seem rich and adult, they had to drink expensive liquor. It was all about status for these people, not exactly because of lack of talk or attention as said in the article. Others drank to get away from problems as many alchohol abusers do. I believe that drinking is more of a follow the leader thing, rather than a lack of attention thing.