A survey released Thursday reaffirmed(重新肯定) previous studies that found teenagers who ate dinner as a family five or more times a week are less likely to use drugs, smoke, or drink alcohol than peers who ate with their families two times or less a week.

　　But the poll of 1,063 teenagers and 550 parents conducted by QEV Analytics(分析学) found contrary to many parents' expectations, most teenagers actually wanted to eat with their families.

　　"About 84 percent of the kids said they would prefer to have dinner with their parents," said Elizabeth Planet, project manager of the survey commissioned by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at New York's Columbia University.

　　"These are teenagers whose parents will tell you they are difficult and don't want to talk. This is not the sense we are getting from the kids themselves. They prefer it."

　　Teens who had two or less meals a week with their family were 3-½ times more likely to have abused prescription medication, three times more likely to have used drug , and one and half times more likely to drink alcohol.

　　The teens who ate regularly with their families also got better grades, with 64 percent reporting mostly As and Bs compared to 49 percent of other teens.

　　"These statistics about the link between the likelihood of drug use and the frequency of dinners always surprises me even though we see it year in and year out," said Planet.

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