How Teen Drinking Is Influenced by Romantic Partner’s Pals

The article I read about teen drinking is called “How Teen Drinking Is Influenced by Romantic Partner’s Pals.” This article was published on September 29, 2011 of last year. I have found this article online on Time Magazine website, http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/29/how-teen-drinking-is-influenced-by-romantic-partners-pals/#ixzz26yNd2zHe. Basically this article was informing us about how teens start drinking and their behaviors toward it. Studies show that teenager’s second-degree relationships are the cause of starting to drink rather than close friends. When teenagers have a new dating partner, he or she will most likely start a drinking habit due to their boyfriend’s/girlfriend’s friends. This is crazy but they tend to be friends that are like them in terms of lifestyle and values, then when they start dating, they make friends that are different from them based on their lifestyle. This is something new that I had heard about, never really thought this could be one of the problems. This answered my curiosity question because it states why teenagers start a habit of drinking and who could be the ones to affect the person. I found this article very informing and gave me a lot of information to read about. Although, I’m still not really sure how dating a new person could cause someone to drink in the first place. What do you guys have to say about this? Think it’s true, could you add more to this research or you just don’t agree with what this article has to say.