Middle-class parents normalising alcohol are partly responsible for England’s high under-age drinking rate, experts suggested today.
One in three kids have had booze by the age of just 11 and one in two by 13.
It marks the highest rate of childhood drinking across 44 countries, according to a damning World Health Organization (WHO) commissioned report.
Kids from wealthy households are most likely to drink, with charities warning they ‘mirror’ the behaviour of affluent parents who frequently indulge in wine.
Pandemic-era curbs which left children isolated and ‘stuck at home’ might also be behind a surge seen in the wake of Covid, scientific commentators said
