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<blockquote data-quote="BusynMember" data-source="post: 717946" data-attributes="member: 1550"><p>It should not be a reward for a month of sobriety. Expensive gift if the person is killed or kills someone.</p><p></p><p>How do you feel about alcoholics who are not your child getting behind the wheel of a car, ready to kill somebody on the road? Are you ok with this behavior? What if he has been sober for six months with one or two slip ups that includes a DUI? Do you want his parents to feel sorry for him and help him get back on the road because he says he is sorry? Could be you next that hevcrashes into. Or your grandbaby.</p><p></p><p> If its not okay for a stranger, it is not ok for your child, even if it is inconvenient for us or if the grown child has to get places in inconvenient ways or wont go at all. I can not think of of a way to defend putting our addicted love one out on the road. Not one. </p><p></p><p>The statistucs shout at us about vehicular homicide and intoxication. This is way different than the other things we sometimes allow them to get away with because it could lead to a death and often does lead to a death. Yes, if we help them drive, we are responsible. Sorry, but we know better. All of us knows better. We just hope it doesnt happen, but too often...it does. </p><p>Reward them, if you must, in a way that does not endanger others.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BusynMember, post: 717946, member: 1550"] It should not be a reward for a month of sobriety. Expensive gift if the person is killed or kills someone. How do you feel about alcoholics who are not your child getting behind the wheel of a car, ready to kill somebody on the road? Are you ok with this behavior? What if he has been sober for six months with one or two slip ups that includes a DUI? Do you want his parents to feel sorry for him and help him get back on the road because he says he is sorry? Could be you next that hevcrashes into. Or your grandbaby. If its not okay for a stranger, it is not ok for your child, even if it is inconvenient for us or if the grown child has to get places in inconvenient ways or wont go at all. I can not think of of a way to defend putting our addicted love one out on the road. Not one. The statistucs shout at us about vehicular homicide and intoxication. This is way different than the other things we sometimes allow them to get away with because it could lead to a death and often does lead to a death. Yes, if we help them drive, we are responsible. Sorry, but we know better. All of us knows better. We just hope it doesnt happen, but too often...it does. Reward them, if you must, in a way that does not endanger others. [/QUOTE]
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