If they're going to do it...I'd rather them do it here

Yeah, that's smart. They are the people that end up in jail for allowing their kids to drink at home and allow friends to come over and drink etc. You should have told them allowing underage drinking period is against the law. Some people are so stupid!!

I'm shocked too! It is illegal to give alcoholic drinks to minors, at home or anywhere else! I think I'd have to alert authorities to this person. I don't think my kids are going to drink when they're old enough because neither I or my husband drink and they don't want to put harmful stuff into their bodies.

Bad idea! Just because she allows it at home, does not mean he/she will not still drink away from home at parties and such. When adolescents drink their brains are damaged, because they are not fully developed. Also young people who drink are highly likely to develop addictions. And if drinking is made to seem like no big deal, then drug usage also seems less taboo. Young people have less ability to determine how much is too much and alcohol poisoning is a huge risk for them. She will have a mess on her hands, even if she never gets arrested for doing something so stupid. Even if the parents of her child's friends never sue her. Even if no child is ever injured or killed directly because of her recklessness.

Hi Bubbles,

This is pathetic that a Mother would allow their children to drink just because they would do it at home and not in the public. How sad that these Mothers don't have any more love for their own children.

This is where we are at today, acceptance to the worldly things, acceptance of evil, and it is abounding more & more every day as I see it.

It is terrible that society teaches people today that in order to be accepted into things you have to be a part of it....SAD! SAD! SAD!
People are made to feel less of oneself if they don't participate, well you know what I haven't lost a thing in the world, nor do I want to be partaker of their things they have to offer me.
I have to live here in this world till I either leave here by death, or leave here at the rapture of the Church...BUT I don't have to be a part of it, partaker, rather!

You raise your children with good Godly fear and they will run their race here with gladness in their heart for the anticipation of a coming Savior.

HUGS & BLESSINGS
Kathy

I have seen parents who allow their children to drink at home and it is not a pretty sight. From what I've read about brain development, kids brains are still growing and developing until they hit their early 20's. As far as I am concerned, we all need as many brain cells as we can grow and shouldn't be destroying them before they are fully developed. I know that some European cultures allow their children to have a glass of wine with dinner and I have heard arguments both for and against this. Some people argue that kids who are allowed alcohol at home don't binge drink later but I have no idea whether there are statistics to support that theory. Personally, I feel that buying kids alcohol is condoning the behaviour and, worse, giving permission and encouragement for it. Perhaps the women you overheard were big drinkers and want to make it seem more acceptable by allowing their kids to do it? I have 3 boys aged between 12 and 17 and they will not be drinking alcohol until they are of legal age. Actually, I know they won't even want to because their (divorced) father is an alcoholic and they have seen what can happen to people. I don't know about other countries laws but, in Australia it is legal to give alcohol to your own children but not to someone else's. Unbeknownst to my parents, I got pissed as a newt (first time I had ever drunk alcohol)at a girl's 13th birthday party because she was allowed to drink alcohol and the mother didn't care whether the rest of us did or not - and provided bottles of spirits. IF parents are going to let their own kids drink, they should have the morals and sense to not offer it to other people's kids. It makes me distrustful of allowing my kids to go to parties at other people's houses and, unless i know the parents and their stance on alcohol for minors, mine are simply not allowed to go.

It is so sad that they didn't teach their kids to be strong enough to not drink. I have 2 grandchildren that are 19 and 21 and they have never taken a drink. It is against the law to give miners any alcohol even if it is your own kids. Does she think that she has the permission to give alcohol to her kids friends. If my kids went over there and drank I would be really up set and wouldn't allow my kid to go over there again.

I think overall the drinking at home is the best way to go. If you completely deny something to a child or young adult the more they will want it. If you allow them to drink in the safety of the home they learn it's not all that exciting and don't feel the need to sneak around doing it. Sneaking out and then driving back drunk is dangerous. A couple drink kids staying at someones house hurts no one, helps satisfy curiousity, and ends the need to sneak. I was always told that if I ever drink to just call and say where I was so they knew and to stay the night. I never felt like I had to sneak around and never drove drunk as long as I lived with my parents.

It's actually not uncommon. It happens where I live quite frequently, especially in the more 'country' areas. I think it's quite stupid in my opinion because the parents are just pushing the idea that it's ok to break the law and it's OK for their kids to drink. Of course, these parents want to be more than friends with their kids and don't want to be parents so they'd rather their kids like them than hate them. I don't agree with that parenting style at all.

Alright buying you teens alcohol...I DO NOT THINK SO! That to me is a no no..... if they get a hold of it themselves i would let get a couple of sips in front of me,but never but it for them.

Oi Vey! What is she thinking...or well I guess she ISN'T thinking is she? Hello.....illegal....no matter if you're the parent or not. Geez!