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Family First Launches Family Dinner Campaign

source: Scoop | Mar 12, 08 | submitted by Pat Coate

Manukau City, New Zealand - Family First NZ is launching a public awareness campaign encouraging families to eat dinner together on a regular basis.

The campaign is timed to begin on the same weekend as Children’s Day.


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"Young people who belong to families that eat together on a regular basis (5 times or more per week) are less likely to smoke, drink, or use illegal drugs ..."
- Bob McCoskrie, Family First NZ national director
 

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