Mothers turning to drink

[EdithWeston]

SKY are reporting this a lot today.

Aside from the annoyance on how they single out mothers (only about a tenth of the problem drinkers, so possibly under-represented not the crux of the alcohol problem), this report describes a level of drinking I find staggering - 24 units a day.

I know most people wildly misreport how much they drink, so the amount consumed may well be even higher. And then if you include father, they claim there are millions of children who are seeing this as the model of how to use alcohol. That seems really worrying to me.

Can anyone still afford to drink 24 units a day? I've just paid for the Christmas wine and am still feeling faint...

3 bottles of wine...really

(Feels better about two glasses a night habit)

I do love how they single out mothers for special attention!

I saw this mentioned on the news this morning as well and googling only turned up a thing on some kind of press site.

That said that of parents that the organisation had been in contact with, who were drinking too much, 2/3 were fathers and 1/3 mothers. And yet the headline was that mothers are hitting the bottle. This sort of reporting is really starting to grate on me TBH.

FWIW 24 units of alcohol is about 2 bottles of wine, the 3 bottles of wine is the 33 units for men.

And the answer is that unfortunately it is quite easy (as clearly many people have found) to get through 1, 2 or even 3 bottles of wine a night.

I wanted to quibble with the statistic of 2.6 million children living with an adult who drinks at dangerous levels, that sounded so high to me, too; > 20% of all children. But NHS says that > 1/3 of British adults drink too much, so maybe it's plausible. :(

I think I've been drinking too much (I think it might be exacerbating insomnia), it's probably around 2 units/day on average. I'd be in a coma if I ever had 24.

In a Y9 PHSE lesson DD1 was the only pupil who had never seen a family member drunk.
In fact I've never seen DH or my parents drunk either.
I think there are simply two separate worlds where alcohol are involved. Those who drink to get drunk and those who don't.
I like the taste of alcohol and will drink wine or beer with supper a couple of nights a week or have a G&T or a glass of sloe gin while cooking at the weekend. I just wouldn't want any more, it's a treat.

Anyway I'm useless at getting drunk I can get giggly and very silly, but I've never had a hangover. I simply fall a sleep or throw up before enough alcohol enters my blood stream.

Majority of school gate conversations revolve round alcohol, any mums get together involves alcohol.
In fact any kids birthday party includes a lot of alcohol for the parents so I can well believed the statistics quoted.

I have never been drunk around my kids, rarely drink and DP does not drink at all.

Startail, my dcs were brought up in a pub, yet they've never seen dh or I drunk in their lives (or anyone else for that matter). People should think more about the example they are setting. It always makes me cross when people complain about not being able to take their children in pubs in the evenings, I mean why on earth would you want to? You get occasional drunks and fighting even in 'nice' pubs in 'nice' areas.
Anyway, the article seems to be more about mothers (of course) drinking at home. I suppose the reason they can afford it is because the supermarkets sell alcohol so cheaply.

So fathers drink more then mothers, but 'mothers' goes in the headline?
No, of course we dont have a patriarchal media.

didn't they only survey 100 people on that tho?