twenty high school students enroled in Brantford Collegiate Institute and Vocational School to test my thesis. I found that 50% of students that I surveyed have admitted to using illegal drugs. Of these students 85% of them feel their family can do a good job of getting through to them on issues such as drugs. Another fact to back my point of view is that 90% of the students surveyed felt that drugs would look less attractive if they spent more time with their families. Even more empowering than that is that 85% of the teens who use drugs are not close to there families. The main reason this survey was sent out was to find out if teens who participated in family functions used drugs. The 25% of the students who stated they spend time as a family more than seven times a week, all stated that they have never used drugs. While the students who didn’t spend time with there families used drugs more than one time a month. The results of my survey that I received were exactly as I anticipated. Statistics and every day examples have proven to show that parental evolvement can reduce the use of drugs.Although social organizations, including educational facilities, have stressed anti drug us, statistics have shown that in order to reduce the drug use rate, the family must get involved. Time must be spent as a family in order to bond. Families play an important role in today’s society. Children may not seem like they do, but they listen to their parents, they respect them. In order to solve the drug problem, we must first solve the problem of teenagers and broken homes....
