The study based on the child behavior claims that having dinner with family lowers the risk of illicit behavior in children.

The findings of ten years of research, performed by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, stated that kids who take dinner with their families have less chances of smoking, drinking or using drugs.

It was further added that taking thirty minutes each night, or might as well taking a leisure time in week, helps strengthen bonds in case of family ties.

"America's drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables - by parents and families," says Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA's founder and chairman.

September 27th marked as a Family Day-A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children-which helps support the fact that family ties.