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[quote=Anonymous]You should have called the cops. Some kid could have driven away from that party drunk, and killed himself/herself, friends in the car, total strangers in other cars. It's the exact scenario that you know you see in the news all the time. It's not some far-fetched possibility; it's very possible indeed. Telling the parents? Please. That's weak. Those parents need a call from the cops saying their kids are in custody, not another parent telling them sheepishly that their kids had alcohol in the house.

You seem scared that your DD will clam up about where she's going and what she's doing if she knows you ratted out these teens to the cops. You could have, as soon as you got home, stepped away somewhere and called without her knowing. it would be better if you could have done it in front of her (because: lesson, lawbreaking equals getting busted and mom is not scared of teen drunks who throw parties). But I do get that in the moment, it's hard for any of us to react that toughly and we don't want our kids to stop telling us things or calling us to be the ones to pick them up if there's trouble.

I would absolutely talk with DD about how she felt about all that drinking and seeing her friend THAT wasted. That's the level of wasted that can so easily end in a rape of an unconscious girl. Next time it could be your DD.

And before someone else here comes along to yell about how teens will be teens, they'll still get drunk another time, etc., well, I suspect people who think like that have never known someone who died due to a drunk teen or college age student getting behind the wheel of a car and driving. I have known someone killed that way. I wonder what would have happened if cops had broken up that party, that one night. [/quote]

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