I was reading this story about George Steinbrenner on cnn and it says at one point:

“Daddy told me that Mr. Steinbrenner never ordered an alcoholic beverage,” Wendy Clowson said. “He would come in and order a Coke with a cherry in it. And he would sit there and he and my father would talk about baseball for hours on end.”

Steinbrenner’s final salute to an old friend – CNN.com

I was just wondering do some people ask their kids not to drink knowing what its done to their family? Does that ever work? I think Mr Steinbrenner was probably the child of an alcoholic but its anybodys guess. I don’t have kids but I think about these things for the future.