My wife has bought into this idea that you should let your kids drink in your home so they won’t do it elsewhere and drive. I guess it’s a permissive mothering thing but I say no way. If we decided to let our kid drink, well, I’m not for that but at least it’s our decision. I will never provide alcohol to other people’s kids nor allow it to happen in my home. Period.
“My wife has bought into this idea that you should let your kids drink in your home so they won’t do it elsewhere and drive.”
A modest and supervised measure of beer or wine in an appropriate setting on a special occasion? Or DRANK’N? One is introduction to social civilities, if observed in that household and agreed upon. The other is a damned bad idea.
“I will never provide alcohol to other people’s kids nor allow it to happen in my home. Period.”
Agreed! Very foolish and presumptuous to do otherwise.
Well, check it out for yourself, but I think research actually showed that what your wife suggests, doesn’t result in kids who are more responsible drinkers.
We have always allowed our children to drink wine when we serve it with meals at home which is about 4-6 times a year. Now all young adults, none have shown any proclivity towards a party lifestyle. Two are tea totallers because they just don’t like the taste of any alcohol beverages.
If you expect children to learn to drink responsibly, you teach them, they certainly won’t learn it from their peers.
It’s an idea that sounds somewhat logical in its way, but the liabilities (as this case shows) are astronomical.
This is a great example of something that maybe “should” be OK, but if it goes wrong and the law decides to come down on you in the form of a zealous prosecutor....you’ll seriously regret it. This is an example of the law-centric difference between adults and minor children. Legally, minors are responsible for nothing, and the peculiar way the law convolutes around this, in this kind of event, the adult is held responsible x 3. For example...this woman, if she killed a kid while driving drunk, would probably not get a 20 year sentence. 8-10-12, maybe.
And your H/O insurance, if you allow or hint that you allow minors to drink in your home, will cover none of it.
This is ridiculous. She shouldn’t have to do any time. She wasn’t even there. Civil charges are another thing.
Wimped out society wants to always blame others. He was 15, not 5 years old.
Sure enough, a couple of teens got into a serious DUI accident later that night. Daughter asked how I knew to get out of there a.s.a.p. I told her the same kind of abject stupidity happened when I was her age.