The 5 Benefits -- and a Few Risks -- of Eating Together at the Dinner Table by www.SixWise.com

"Families that do have dinner together often are families whose parents are fully engaged with their kids. We're certainly not back to 'Leave It to Beaver' and 'Father Knows Best,' but it's heading in that direction," said Richard D. Mulieri, a spokesman for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
Life has a way of pulling families in a million different directions all at the same time. While you are trying to get home from work at a reasonable hour, your spouse may be running all over town doing errands, and meanwhile your kids are tied up with activities of their own. All of this scrambling makes something that, in theory at least, should be simple sound like a monumental feat.
What we are referring to is sitting down, as a family, to have dinner together most nights of the week. It may take some finagling, some rearranging of schedules and some tenacity on everyone's part, but those who have made the effort and succeeded have found that the rewards made it well worth their while.
Find out what benefits are these frequent family-meal-attendees reaping here ... http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/06/05/03/the_5_benefits_--_and_a_few_risks_--_of_eating_together_at_the_dinner_table.htm