Europeans with their sip of wine for kids seems to have a very different outcome to the puritanical US attitude to alcohol and ban until old age.

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yorwba 4 days ago | parent [-]

Different in the sense that they consume more alcohol? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c... That it is legal for children to drink under parental supervision also doesn't necessarily mean that parents will allow it, so the legal situation isn't necessarily the deciding factor.

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RugnirViking 4 days ago | parent [-]

For what it's worth, in both Denmark and the UK, my experience has been that children are indeed allowed it on occasion, often celebrations like Christmas where they will have something like bucks fizz or a little cider or something alongside the adults.

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kqr 4 days ago | parent [-]

Right, and this leads to greater consumption in life. This has been studied. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03064...

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blitzar 4 days ago | parent [-]

France, Italy and Spain are all places I have routinely seen parents offer their children a small glass with dinner, generally from age 12 onward.

https://archive.nytimes.com/well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/2...

> greater consumption in life

with equivalent or lower alcoholism or alcohol dependency disorders - https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholis...

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kqr 4 days ago | parent [-]

> with equivalent or lower alcoholism or alcohol dependency disorders

Something something about correlation and causation. I will weigh studies that try to eliminate confounders above population data rife with them.

	▲	blitzar 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I didn't use a phrase like "this leads to" and cite a logistic regression.