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[quote=Anonymous]I haven’t dealt with this from the parental side yet, but I’m a millennial and my parents are immigrants. My dad is a daily drinker - 1-2 beers during the week and more on the weekends (socially). My mom hates alcohol, always has, and barely touches it. They both thought American underage drinking laws were pretty arbitrary and took the position that making alcohol freely available took away the “forbidden fruit” aspect and that I could help myself from the bar whenever I wanted, so sometimes my dad and I would have a drink together. This did not extend to serving my friends or hosting parties (but my best friend growing up was European, her parents and mine were friends, and we’d frequently have family dinners where her parents or mine served us both wine).

Once I was in college and got a fake ID, I’d sometimes use it out with them at a restaurant. Many times my mom would order for me at an open bar (or once on a cruise) if I asked. I was 18-20, not 16, though.

I will say my parents’ approach worked. Never felt the need to sneak around to drink in high school and didn’t go wild in college when alcohol was freely accessible because it wasn’t novel at all.[/quote]

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