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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Obviously. I am shocked at the number of supposed "parents" who are sitting there and saying to mind your business. This is your business: their kid threw a party. Your kid was at said party, was given alcohol (which is illegal) and pot(also illegal, even if the potheads up in our government now wish that wasn't the case), this has affected your child, and so to let this continue would be to ensure a location for juvenile delinquency continues to run as a party house.

If you don't report it, you will be supporting a public nuisense. If I was in your position, I would have called the cops immediately upon learning about this party, and immediately afterwards been talking to the "parents" that seem to think their kid is mature enough to stay home alone when they clearly just want to drink and get high.

If the situation was flipped, would you want to be notified? I would, certainly. It would be rough, but I would need to know, and I would even say that not reporting it is child neglect. Because should this been my teenage son throwing the party, you bet your ass I would want to know so I knew to put him into rehab for alcohol/drug addiction, and give him the severe punishment needed to help reform delinquents.   [/quote]

If there was underage drinking, that was stupid because doing illegal stuff is pretty stupid in most cases, and exposing everyone and the host's parents to liability for that was a really poor choice.

But I don't think it's as big a deal as you're making of it. The only reason I would have a problem with my kid hosting/attending such a thing is because of the legal issue. I think the drinking age is stupid, but it's the law so it is to be followed. Drinking to the point of getting drunk holds no appeal for me, and I suspect many people get over it once they have tried it a few times, but stigmatizing drinking and making it a forbidden fruit/adult/mysterious type thing is not at all helping the issue.

Attending or hosting a party with alcohol does not mean the kid necessarily has an addiction... good lord that's a massive overreaction. Is it a behavior pattern? Does it interfere with other activities of life? Those are indicators of a possible problem. One party one time is not, or did you not party at all in high school? If you were never really into that, I can see why it would seem scarier to you or like a bigger deal. Honestly, though, even if your kid attends a crazy party on occasion odds are pretty good that he's not an alcoholic.[/quote]

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