Nearly a third of UK children feel scared when they see adults drunk or drinking too much, a survey suggests.

Half of the 1,234 10 to 14-year-olds surveyed by Childwise for BBC Newsround said they had seen their parents drunk.

Nearly half were not bothered by adults drinking, but 16% said alcohol made adults angry and aggressive; 30% said they were scared when adults drank.

Childwise warned that action would be needed to prevent binge drinking worsening among the next generation.

Childwise research director Rosemary Duff said the 30% who felt scared when adults drank was a “sizeable minority”. But she said it was also a concern that nearly half of children were “not bothered” by drunkenness, which, she said, suggested drinking culture had become “ingrained”.

Source: BBC Family News

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