When Parents Won't Parent. . . This column originally appeared in The Lexington Minuteman September 26, 1996. All Rights Reserved.
Parents expect teenagers to try drugs.
What goes around comes around, I guess. Drugs have been a hot topic even in our quiet little bedroom community. The alarm bells went off in January when the results of the Youth Risk Behavior Survey, given to students at Lexington High School in 1995, were reported. The numbers weren't just bad - they were catastrophic. This is not good.