We Knew Drinking Alone Was a Problem . . .

. . . but so is eating alone, at least for children:

[F]ewer than one-third of all children sit down to eat dinner with both parents on any given night. ... The decline in the family dinner has been blamed for the rise in obesity, drug abuse, behavioral problems, promiscuity, poor school performance, illegal file sharing and a host of other ills.

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