Children and teenagers of any age who sip or taste alcohol with their parents’ permission are more likely to engage in risky drinking^[1] in young adulthood. That was the finding of a new study my colleagues and I published in the journal Addictive Behaviors.

In the study, we examined questionnaires filled out annually between 2009 and 2018 by 387 adolescents starting at age 11 and an accompanying parent. Topics included...