WSJ
By HILARY STOUT
November 11, 2004; Page D8
"Study after study finds that kids who eat dinner with their families regularly are better students, healthier people and less likely to smoke, drink or use drugs than those who don't. A University of Michigan study of children ages 3 through 12, for example, found that more meal time with the family was the single strongest predictor of better achievement scores and fewer behavioral problems -- even better than time spent studying or in church...Sixty-one percent of youths ages 12 through 17 said they ate dinner with their families at least five nights a week in 2003, up from 47% in 1998, according to a recent study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, which has researched the importance of family dinners in preventing teen drug and alcohol use."
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