<p>Parents, how are you confronting this problem?
<a href="http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20070315/rise-in-alcohol-abuse-by-college-women%5B/url%5D">http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20070315/rise-in-alcohol-abuse-by-college-women</a></p>
<p>Last year I thought my daughter might be drinking too much. It just seemed like all her activities with friends revolved around drinking. She was also complaining fairly frequently about not feeling good. So I trotted out a story that seemed to make her think, and perhaps moderate her drinking. This is the story: my father's father became a widower back in 1940, while in his fifties. His son (my dad) went off to WWII soon after that, and his 16-year old daughter was sent to live with a maiden aunt on the other side of the state (I think family members felt that he wouldn't be able to raise her alone, that she needed a mother figure. Kind of sad). He was a newspaperman in a small town, and the practice was to gather at the town bar after the paper was "put to bed" each night. Well, eventually he developed an alcohol problem (who wouldn't?) So I told my daughter that we have alcoholism in our family, and that she should be extra careful because she is probably genetically susceptible to it.</p>