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<blockquote data-quote="Kathy813" data-source="post: 91469" data-attributes="member: 1967"><p>kjs ~ I can assure you that there are parents even today that allow alcohol to be served in their house to underage children. There are stories on the news about parents being charged when a party gets out of hand and a teen dies or is injured. We had one not long ago where a teen collapsed from drinking at an after prom party and died. The parents of one of the teens was upstairs "supervising" the after prom party and was later quoted as saying that they thought it was safer to have the kids drinking at their house than out drinking and driving.</p><p></p><p>Maybe it is because I am in a high school and am around teens daily that I know how much drinking is going on. The regular Monday morning conversation in the hall is how wasted everyone got over the weekend. I was as vigilant as you describe yourself but my difficult child still managed to drink. I found out later that some of my neighbors that I trusted thought nothing about letting the "kids" have a drink in their homes. They shared the philosophy that letting the teens have a drink or two would take away the mystery. The problem was that my teen had a substance abuse problem and they were feeding it. </p><p></p><p>I, too, believed that the responsible thing to do was to <u>not</u> encourage teens to break the law by allowing them to drink in my home. A teen that wants to drink, though, will find a way.</p><p></p><p>~Kathy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kathy813, post: 91469, member: 1967"] kjs ~ I can assure you that there are parents even today that allow alcohol to be served in their house to underage children. There are stories on the news about parents being charged when a party gets out of hand and a teen dies or is injured. We had one not long ago where a teen collapsed from drinking at an after prom party and died. The parents of one of the teens was upstairs "supervising" the after prom party and was later quoted as saying that they thought it was safer to have the kids drinking at their house than out drinking and driving. Maybe it is because I am in a high school and am around teens daily that I know how much drinking is going on. The regular Monday morning conversation in the hall is how wasted everyone got over the weekend. I was as vigilant as you describe yourself but my difficult child still managed to drink. I found out later that some of my neighbors that I trusted thought nothing about letting the "kids" have a drink in their homes. They shared the philosophy that letting the teens have a drink or two would take away the mystery. The problem was that my teen had a substance abuse problem and they were feeding it. I, too, believed that the responsible thing to do was to <u>not</u> encourage teens to break the law by allowing them to drink in my home. A teen that wants to drink, though, will find a way. ~Kathy [/QUOTE]
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