The issue was, was he going to be decisive? What was he going to do?
Parents raise hell and refuse to send their kids to classrooms infested with asbestos. Yet every day they ship their children off to schools riddled with illegal drugs. When parents feel as strongly about drugs in our schools as they do about asbestos, we will have drug-free schools.
Women have come a long way over the past 20 years, but in substance abuse and addiction, women have come the wrong way.
Drugs and alcohol have infested our schools and threaten our children and their ability to learn and develop their talents.
For a woman, a drink is like two drinks are for a man, so a woman gets intoxicated more rapidly.
Parent power is a potent force in getting kids to stay away from drugs and alcohol and cigarettes, and it's greatly underutilized.
The more often kids had dinner with their parents the less likely they were to smoke, drink and use drugs.
It is time for each of us to stop looking out the window and start looking in the mirror.
We've been doing research on substance abuse as though everybody was a man. But it's clear that women need different treatment.
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