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Kids lie about things when they think that telling the truth is going to cause more problems/hurt them more than telling the lie. Maybe your daughter feels that the repercussions, if she tells you she drinks, will be too harsh. This can be simply that she doesn't want to be chastised, questioned, or just doesn't want to hurt mom and dad or cause them to lose repect for her.
When I was in college, one night I was assaulted by an intruder- woken from a deep sleep. I did not tell my parents about it because, gasp, my bf was sleeping over (he was in the next room- I was on the couch in the front room because I'd been trying to finish up a book). I didn't want them to know because I thought I'd be in trouble for having the bf over, and that they would end up coming up to the school, getting all in an uproar, want me to move out of the apartment, etc.
They even called me one night a couple weeks after it happened, to warn me that they'd heard there had been a rash of intrusions/assaults on coeds in the town/dorms, and to be careful! ("Yes, mom... don't worry, I'll be OK.") It was YEARS later that I told them, and they were astonished that I'd kept it from them. Looking back as an adult now, it does seem silly, but I was only 20 years old and didn't want them upset. That's a pretty big thing to not tell your family. Now that's a good example of where my internal cost/benefit analysis as a young naive woman, kept me from sharing.
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