The Times has a piece from one middle class mum justifying her drug taking:
We’d all finished dinner, and we kicked off our shoes and watched as our host showed off his new Technics turntables, a present from his wife. It was his 40th-birthday party, and a group of us had come to stay at his house in Devon. One mum went upstairs to check all the children were asleep. Including my three-year-old, there were 10 children staying, aged from six months to five years. No sooner had we been given the all-clear than two of the five dads got out wraps of cocaine and began chopping out lines on the table.
She seems to believe that what she and her friends are doing won’t harm their children, and yet parental drug misuse is an identified risk factor for future drug problems.
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