When I was a child, I saw Huset på Christianshavn every day. It was a family show. Here are two clips from Youtube
Making own beers. The wife who is entering the flat in the end was at that time the wife of the serving prime minister of Denmark. Unlike Arnold and Reagan housemembers of the serving politicians can be active actors.
Another clipNotice there are beers everywhere and it is a family show. Some claim that it is the number of drinkers in your home that makes it more likely that you will end up consuming alcohol big time, when you are grown, but the funny thing is that it is the swedish youngsters, who are partying in Denmark, who ends up drunk.
While alcohol is seen among teenagers as young as 11 to 13, they have all sobered up when they are adult. It is not funny anymore.
I also have to link to this survey:
http://www.espad.org/sa/node.asp?node=652about danish youth aged 13 - 15.
This survey, which coveres Europe hammer any suggestion that an early introduction to alcohol will destroy people lives, because we do not have the numbers of deaths, people in prison or even a high number of teenage pregnacies to back that statement.
Youth drink and after a while they discover that there are so many other things in the world, they would miss if they do not sober up and there is a lot of help to get because we all have tried to drink alcohol we also know how to stop. It can be done locally and in many case in the family without outside involvement.
We do not know what causes alcoholism. I saw a sign once:
I am not an alcoholic
I am a drunk
(Note: Alcoholics attend meetings)Maybe it is the only difference.