Parents serving alcohol or allowing it in their homes

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Anonymous wrote:From what I have seen (as an outsider and a mom of kids not in the crowd) its loosely about popularity and a certain culture they are grooming the kid for - like frats and sororities. These kids have the looks and skills to end up in top houses. ALL of these kids will rush.

So this phony pearl clutching boils down to deep-seeded envy? Gen X’ers who were dorks in high school and college still have a chip on their shoulder around outgoing parents who didn’t invite them to parties?

Rushing is in college. These people are talking about 9th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parents who do this are just asking to get, at the very least, sued, at worst, thrown in prison. They can't control what happens after the kids leave. In my view, they are showing worse judgment than the teenagers.

It says it explicitly in most handbooks that this can lead to expulsion. It is illegal. I know parents that were pissed their kids went to a party and invited by parents and came home drunk in 9th grade. Falling down drunk and parents were there and condoned it.

[Anonymous]

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When I invite parents and children over for dinner, and serve wine at that dinner, I ask the teens if they want to taste, with their parents' permission. We are French, and this how children start drinking responsibly in France. A sip, not more.

I can't imagine offering alcohol to minors without their parents' express permission, let along letting them drive themselves home afterward.

Yes, Europeans are much smarter about this. Though the UK seems a bit different culturally, ha ha!

I don't think this is statistically true. There are alcoholism problems in many European countries.