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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up without ever watching/reading/hearing anything about crashes like this - yet I never got drunk and would never be in a moving car without a seat belt on. [b]The only thing my parents needed to do was make the rules very clear, be very strict with them, state clearly what happens to people who get wasted or don't wear seat belts during accidents and keep me away from kids who would drink or think not wearing seat belts was cool.
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This is ALL about parents not parenting well. I grew up with a legal drinking age of 16 for light alcohol like beer and 18 for anything else. There was no such accident as this one or the many others where I grew up. Ever. If parents parent well teens can drink responsibly without getting drunk (even though personally I prefer a legal drinking age of 18 to 16 I also believe a huge reason for teenage over-drinking IS the fact that legal drinking age is 21. It is SO forbidden for SO long that teens just go overboard behind their parents back). And they can drink without ever getting near a car. And they will wear seat belts when they are in a car. It is ALL about parenting. Nothing else.[/quote]

Parents could make the rules very clear, be very strict with them, state clearly what happens to people who get wasted or don't wear seat belts during accidents, and still have teenagers who do dumb things, including getting drunk and making all of the dumb decisions that people are much more likely to make when they're drunk. Then what? Then it isn't ALL about the parenting?

I also wonder how your parents kept you away from kids who drank or thought that not wearing seat belts was cool. Were you homeschooled and prevented from joining any activity involving any teenagers?
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