A Columbia University study linked the frequency of family dinners (you remember, where everyone sits down together to eat) to teen smoking, drinking and drug usage.
This really shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone and, while I think family dinners are very important, this seems to me to be an easy way to measure the amount of interaction that a family gets. Clearly the positive involvement of parents in their children’s lives will raise healthier children. More time communicating about the simple things in life makes a huge difference.
