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[quote=Anonymous]With teens/tweens in the house do you keep your alcohol under lock and key?   Or is it somewhere easily accessible?

For some reason today I was reminded of an incident that happened when I was in 8th grade (late 1980's.)

One of my classmates "Heather" showed up to school DRUNK.    She was acting all weird and confused and couldn't walk straight/keep her head up.   She got called to the office and later as i was walking past could see her dad in there, talking to the principal. She was suspended for several days.

Later that day we found out the story of what happened (how she got drunk that morning.)   She used to walk to the bus stop with another girl from our school ("Jen.")   That morning, Heather showed up at Jen's house to walk to the bus stop several minutes earlier than normal.   Jen was still getting dressed so she was in her room while Heather waited in the living room.    Heather called out to Jen "Hey, is it ok if I have something to drink?" and Jen replied "sure!" (thinking that Heather was just going to have some orange juice or milk.)   Nope, turned out Heather had spotted Jen's parents' liquor cabinet and helped herself.

I guess Jen didn't notice right away, or maybe she did but just didn't know what to do?   But once Jen was finished getting dressed they left for the bus stop--apparently Heather was able to get on the bus ok without being too obviously drunk that the bus driver noticed.

I don't know if there were any repercussions for Jen's parents...and this was back in the 80s.   But if something like this happened now, would Jen's parents be held legally/criminally responsible?    They weren't home when this happened, and Jen had never drank the alcohol before--so they probably didn't even consider that another kid, that typically was never in a room alone in their house, would have had some.[/quote]

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