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To: Lane3 who wrote (130874)	8/9/2005 1:15:34 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793743

I agree, but a misuse like that doesn't necessarily make the approach wrong. and Sometimes they do despite good parenting. No, it doesn't. But it invites certain problems. And if your teen is allowed to go to these parties, there is no guarantee just how reliable the controls are going to be--as in this case where our friends knew the people and had felt comfortable. One of the nicest families around had a wonderful son, a class leader, rushed to the hospital with alcohol poisoning from a party where the parents allowed drinking. So yeah, I do think we were very lucky. Lots of wonderful parents here whose kids were drinking. We didn't take any kind of religious/moral stance on this. For us, it was a question of something being the law. Interestingly, in Texas, children are (or at least they were eight years ago) allowed to drink with their parents. I had a copy of that law at one time. We did offer champagne at times and after 18, wine, but the kids were never interested.