Report Looks At Holiday Drinking And Parents

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Taking care of your kids can be difficult this time of year with holiday parties, get-togethers, and alcohol. New research from the C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital shows about 64% of parents polled were very likely to make plans for someone to take care of their child the day after a holiday event. Sarah Clark is a co-director of the study and spoke with Michigan News Network about it.

“Whether it’s the day of a special event, or the day after, the vigilance required to keep your child safe really means that you either need to be at your regular level of functioning as a parent, or you need to make plans to have your child be with an adult who can take care of that,” Clark said.

Clark says 8% of the parents polled admitted to being too impaired to take care of their kids at some point. Some had plans to get someone else to watch the kids while they nursed their hangovers.