New study swears kids who spend lots of time online get more sex, drink more.
And, tear to my eye, it's from Canada. About our kids.
As reported in Preventitive Medicine Magazine, the current issue, epidemiology PhD candidate Valerie Carson, from an unnamed [or I forget coz I am online so much] university says that since teens who are into being on line they are getting more.
"This research is based on social cognitive theory, which suggests that seeing people engaged in a behaviour is a way of learning that behaviour," explains Carson. "Since adolescents are exposed to considerable screen time – over 4.5 hours on average each day – they're constantly seeing images of behaviours they can then potentially adopt."
Monkey see, monkey do.
Proud to be Canuckistanian.
WFDS
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