Allowing Your Kid to Drink Underage

[CRoyal]

I feel that if the law states you have to wait until you're 21, you better wait until you're 21. . Why teach them that the law doesn't matter in some situations?
I was forbidden to drink and feared getting in trouble if I ever did. I didn't touch a drop until my second year of college.. even then I was underage, but I was no longer under my parents supervision.
This isn't meant to go into the drinking age (which most people feel it should be 18) but to get some insight from parents, and your own experiences.

 

[mv_princess]

My parents let myself and brother drink underage. Their rule was, if you can drink at home we don't have to worry about you doing it else where. They were right. Why go to some place get trashed and sneak around, when I could simply stay home and drink.

 

[jetmonkey]

My parents let myself and brother drink underage. Their rule was, if you can drink at home we don't have to worry about you doing it else where. They were right. Why go to some place get trashed and sneak around, when I could simply stay home and drink.

Because getting drunk with your parents instead of your friends is pretty gay.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

Because getting drunk with your parents instead of your friends is pretty gay.

But what if you have cool parents who let you drink w/them?

 

[bcp]

the law allows for the parent to let the children drink in their own home at a much earler age than 21.

I will go on record as saying that this will not be the case in my house.

 

[jetmonkey]

My parents let myself and brother drink underage. Their rule was, if you can drink at home we don't have to worry about you doing it else where. They were right. Why go to some place get trashed and sneak around, when I could simply stay home and drink.

Did they let you #### in the house using the same logic?

 

[Lugnut]

I feel that if the law states you have to wait until you're 21, you better wait until you're 21. . Why teach them that the law doesn't matter in some situations?
I was forbidden to drink and feared getting in trouble if I ever did. I didn't touch a drop until my second year of college.. even then I was underage, but I was no longer under my parents supervision.
This isn't meant to go into the drinking age (which most people feel it should be 18) but to get some insight from parents, and your own experiences.

Actually there's a twist in the law that allows one to legally drink underage (as long as you have an adult in your immediate family that will allow you.. See below.

But I agree with you.

§ 10-117. Furnishing for or allowing underage consumption.

(a) Prohibited - Furnishing alcohol.- Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, a person may not furnish an alcoholic beverage to an individual if:

(1) the person furnishing the alcoholic beverage knows that the individual is under the age of 21 years; and

(2) the alcoholic beverage is furnished for the purpose of consumption by the individual under the age of 21 years.

(b) Same - Allowing possession or consumption of alcohol.- Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, an adult may not knowingly and willfully allow an individual under the age of 21 years actually to possess or consume an alcoholic beverage at a residence, or within the curtilage of a residence that the adult owns or leases and in which the adult resides.

(c) Exceptions.-


(1) The prohibition set forth in subsection (a) of this section does not apply if the person furnishing the alcoholic beverage and the individual to whom the alcoholic beverage is furnished:

(i) are members of the same immediate family, and the alcoholic beverage is furnished and consumed in a private residence or within the curtilage of the residence; or

(ii) are participants in a religious ceremony.

(2) The prohibition set forth in subsection (b) of this section does not apply if the adult allowing the possession or consumption of the alcoholic beverage and the individual under the age of 21 years who possesses or consumes the alcoholic beverage:

(i) are members of the same immediate family, and the alcoholic beverage is possessed and consumed in a private residence, or within the curtilage of the residence, of the adult; or

(ii) are participants in a religious ceremony. .

 

[mv_princess]

Because getting drunk with your parents instead of your friends is pretty gay.

Right. Because going to jail is so much fun.

I didn't say we drank with our parents, nor did I say our friends weren't there

 

[jetmonkey]

But what if you have cool parents who let you drink w/them?

You don't.

 

[jetmonkey]

Right. Because going to jail is so much fun.

I didn't say we drank with our parents, nor did I say our friends weren't there

Wow, your parents let other underage kids drink in your house unsupervised? Awesome.

 

[mv_princess]

Wow, your parents let other underage kids drink in your house unsupervised? Awesome.

Aw did your parents lock you up?

WTH is your problem? No they didn't let me #### in their house. But thanks for checking

 

[kwillia]

No.

 

[jetmonkey]

Aw did your parents lock you up?

WTH is your problem? No they didn't let me #### in their house. But thanks for checking

No I went out and got #### faced with my friends like a normal kid :shrug:

 

[kwillia]

Aw did your parents lock you up?

WTH is your problem? No they didn't let me #### in their house. But thanks for checking

He had a valid point.

 

[Chasey_Lane]

WTH is your problem?

He was up playing XBox Live all night w/Chuck Norris.

 

[CRoyal]

Wow, I didn't know there was a loophole that included family..Thanks Lug

None the less, why let em know how much fun it is to get drunk when they can't truly enjoy it yet?
No one likes ducking around and skirting citations underage. .

 

[mv_princess]

He had a valid point.

Ok.

 

[mv_princess]

He was up playing XBox Live all night w/Chuck Norris.

 

[jetmonkey]

He was up playing XBox Live all night w/Chuck Norris.

I'm a little punch drunk.

 

[High EGT]

My parents let myself and brother drink underage. Their rule was, if you can drink at home we don't have to worry about you doing it else where. They were right. Why go to some place get trashed and sneak around, when I could simply stay home and drink.

Some common sense should be applied in these circumstances. Allowing an under age kid to get "trashed" under your roof invites all sorts of negative consequences and violates the premise of common sense.

Common sense (or, when used attributively as an adjective, commonsense, common-sense, or commonsensical), based on a strict construction of the term, is what people in common would agree: that which they "sense" in common as their common natural understanding. Some use the phrase to refer to beliefs or propositions that in their opinion they consider would in most people's experience be prudent and of sound judgment, without dependence upon esoteric knowledge or study or research, but based upon what is believed to be knowledge held by people "in common", so: the knowledge and experience most people have, or are believed to have by the person using the term.