what is with parents serving alcohol at parties for kids who are 15 and 16?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

OP here.
YES!!! They are hosting the parties, with ice buckets on the patio and are handing the kids drinks.
This is not basement drinking or the sort.
None of these families are Europeans so please don't derail the thread with that line of thinking. Ironically, if anyone is a "European" I am (immigrated as a very young child).

The pool party yesterday was for 10th grade girls. The mom served 16 year old girls hard seltzer from the side of their pool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Why do you feel that way? Teens drink abroad.

Then they can go abroad and drink.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Better make sure your kid goes to university in the US, then! And never goes on an international trip before their 21st birthday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Why do you feel that way? Teens drink abroad.

Then they can go abroad and drink.

Americans are truly backwards puritans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

OP here.
YES!!! They are hosting the parties, with ice buckets on the patio and are handing the kids drinks.
This is not basement drinking or the sort.
None of these families are Europeans so please don't derail the thread with that line of thinking. Ironically, if anyone is a "European" I am (immigrated as a very young child).

The pool party yesterday was for 10th grade girls. The mom served 16 year old girls hard seltzer from the side of their pool.

That Mom clearly has some issues/arrested development.

Her daughter needs a parent, not another friend - she already has plenty of friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Why do you feel that way? Teens drink abroad.

Then they can go abroad and drink.

Americans are truly backwards puritans.

And yet here you are.

[Anonymous]

What does OP's question have to do with Europeans?

She asked why American parents are serving alcohol to teen minors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What does OP's question have to do with Europeans?

She asked why American parents are serving alcohol to teen minors.

Because a PP called teens drinking “fundamentally wrong.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Why do you feel that way? Teens drink abroad.

And this is relevant how? This idealization of anything European is ridiculous. European teens have their own issues with drugs and alcohol and the consequences that flow from these actions--DUI's, rape, depression, poor grades, etc. Throwing alcohol into the mix of hormone crazy developing teenage boys and girls is like throwing a match onto to gasoline. They already naturally have impulse control and judgement issues by virtue of their age. Do these alcohol host parents want another Kavanaugh situation on their hands? And unlike the 80's, ALL the kids have phones, everything is documented. JUST SO STUPID and immoral on so many levels. Where are the adults. arrested development at its best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Better make sure your kid goes to university in the US, then! And never goes on an international trip before their 21st birthday.

Please, we are talking about college VS highschool. There is a big difference

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Why do you feel that way? Teens drink abroad.

And this is relevant how? This idealization of anything European is ridiculous. European teens have their own issues with drugs and alcohol and the consequences that flow from these actions--DUI's, rape, depression, poor grades, etc. Throwing alcohol into the mix of hormone crazy developing teenage boys and girls is like throwing a match onto to gasoline. They already naturally have impulse control and judgement issues by virtue of their age. Do these alcohol host parents want another Kavanaugh situation on their hands? And unlike the 80's, ALL the kids have phones, everything is documented. JUST SO STUPID and immoral on so many levels. Where are the adults. arrested development at its best.

Most European teens don’t drive. Public transportation is robust and areas are very walkable.

[Anonymous]

What’s a Kavanaugh situation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

OP here.
YES!!! They are hosting the parties, with ice buckets on the patio and are handing the kids drinks.
This is not basement drinking or the sort.
None of these families are Europeans so please don't derail the thread with that line of thinking. Ironically, if anyone is a "European" I am (immigrated as a very young child).

he pool party yesterday was for 10th grade girls. The mom served 16 year old girls hard seltzer from the side of their pool.

Were you there? Did you say anything to the mom? I'm really disgusted. I feel sorry for my kids, yours, and everyone else's. Very backwards times. Also of note, when kids drink, or anyone from that matter, their judgement gets thrown out the window which means they are more likely to try things like drugs that may very well be laced with fentanyl which means they could die. Think about that too cool parents who serve alcohol to minors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s a Kavanaugh situation?

Getting hammered as highschooler, making poor decisions under the influence, possibly groping, sexually assaulting girls, and later having all those bad decision that were made while you were drunk publicized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are the parents present at these parties? Just from a liability perspective, I'm flabbergasted. Especially with so many of the parents being lawyers. I know these parties do exist and it makes me sad. Why on earth are people encouraging their much to young teenagers to be drinking? Study after study shows how dangerous drinking in highschool is both in the short and long term.

Is this born out of a need for the parents to feel cool? Parents who provide alcohol to minors please explain your though process. I'm a parent who will call the cops on one of these parties. It's just fundamentally wrong on so many levels to be serving 14 to 18 year old alcohol.

Why do you feel that way? Teens drink abroad.

And this is relevant how? This idealization of anything European is ridiculous. European teens have their own issues with drugs and alcohol and the consequences that flow from these actions--DUI's, rape, depression, poor grades, etc. Throwing alcohol into the mix of hormone crazy developing teenage boys and girls is like throwing a match onto to gasoline. They already naturally have impulse control and judgement issues by virtue of their age. Do these alcohol host parents want another Kavanaugh situation on their hands? And unlike the 80's, ALL the kids have phones, everything is documented. JUST SO STUPID and immoral on so many levels. Where are the adults. arrested development at its best.

Most European teens don’t drive. Public transportation is robust and areas are very walkable.

Well that changes everything