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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s incomprehensible. [/quote]

The potential legal liability alone…[/quote]

:roll:

If that were statistically relevant, it would make the news often.

But it doesn’t.[/quote]

Unfortunatley it only makes the news when someone is killed.  
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/teen-driver-in-deadly-maryland-crash-pleads-guilty/2016/04/08/05c297be-fda2-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html

The Wootton case has focused sharp attention on teen drinking parties and a parent culture that appears to condone them. A bill advancing in Annapolis would increase penalties, including jail time, for adults who host such parties. Lawmakers were expected to take it up Saturday.

Kenneth Saltzman, the father of the teenager who hosted the party preceding the crash, pleaded guilty to two criminal citations for allowing underage drinking at his home and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, the maximum.[/quote]
The liquor lobby fights fiercely against any consequences for adults who provide alcohol to children. What has David Trone done about this?[/quote]

The father was ordered to pay $5000? For two young lives lost. This is awful. It's important to start turning these people in before the tragedies occur. We shouldn't tolerate such poor decisions. [/quote]

Agree it’s outrageous that Saltzman was ordered to pay $5k. He took the initiative to facilitate what kids will do anyway, while MoCo like so many other places just bans kids from bars and liquor stores and thinks just saying no is enough.

When you just tell your kid don’t drink, think about what that means. Who are the kids who don’t drink? I’ll tell you. The boys playing D&D on Saturday night because they can’t get dates. The girls still doing Girl Scouts senior year because they can’t dream of doing competitive cheer or joining a sorority. That’s who you leave for your kid to “befriend” if you force them to say no ANYTIME there’s alcohol around.

Just like college. Just like law school. Just like the firm. You have to learn how to get along, and you start learning that as kids. Unfortunately in scapegoating Mr. Saltzman the rest of MoCo blows off their responsibility to make their kids work hard, play hard and succeed hard.
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I’d rather my kids play D&D or scout than join a sorority. If they had been interested in competitive cheer, I would have supported it, but I’m just as  happy they weren’t.

Work hard - They were magnet students, I struggled to get them to work less. 
Succeed hard - I want them to find the success that makes them happy (as long as it’s honorable and they’re self-sufficient). I am not worried about their success. 
Play hard - I want them to do what makes them happy, and have friends with common interests who care about them.  Drinking to fit in with the popular kids may be hard, but it doesn’t sound like play. [/quote]

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