Reader comments: Enlisting parents to fight booze
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russ | 6:36 a.m. March 24, 2008
Long overdue. You need to fight underage drinking 24/7/365. No mercy to the providers, either.
dave | 7:25 a.m. March 24, 2008
I fail to see why it is the governments business to tell us that our children cannot drink. This prohabition leads to binge drinking, hiding and sneaking around. Govermental control is for liberal governments.
Knows Better | 7:55 a.m. March 24, 2008
To dave:
The government has to tell us that our children cannot drink because some parents are idiots. Unfortunately, having a child doesn't mean someone automatically knows how to raise it. And with the number of deaths caused by kids either binge drinking themselves to death, or driving while drunk and killing themselves or somebody else, it is ABSOLUTELY a public risk, and therefore a governmental issue. If you won't raise your kids properly, don't complain when the public steps in and does so.
The government has to tell us that our children cannot drink because some parents are idiots. Unfortunately, having a child doesn't mean someone automatically knows how to raise it. And with the number of deaths caused by kids either binge drinking themselves to death, or driving while drunk and killing themselves or somebody else, it is ABSOLUTELY a public risk, and therefore a governmental issue. If you won't raise your kids properly, don't complain when the public steps in and does so.
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boozeteens | 7:59 a.m. March 24, 2008
Sorry but throughout time, parents have been responsible to teach values etc but also throughout time children have always enjoyed the challenge of the tempted fruit. Part of growing in life and sad to say some learn the hard way others no big deal. Parents have been the slackers and relied too much on blaming someone else for their childrens mis steps in life. Time for parents to quit handing over toys and money and spend more time with their brood
uncannygunman | 8:07 a.m. March 24, 2008
I don't think this conversation is going to go anywhere productive until everyone involved realizes that a 12-year-old drinking is a very different thing from a 16-year-old drinking, and both are different from a 20-year-old drinking. Yes, they are all "underage drinkers," but you're running the range from true kids, to teenagers, up through full-fledged adults. There's not going to be a one-size-fits-all solution.
Anonymous | 8:30 a.m. March 24, 2008
To Knows Better:
Of course, there are still those parents who allow their children to drink with them in the privacy of their own home. So, the government really doesn't help save children from horrible parenting.
Of course, there are still those parents who allow their children to drink with them in the privacy of their own home. So, the government really doesn't help save children from horrible parenting.
eeyore92704 | 8:31 a.m. March 24, 2008
I have to agree with uncanny. Many children have their own experiences and at different ages. Fighting for one cause is great but having the same solution is not. I will say that I am sure many of us were in the same shoes as many of these children and yes part of the problem is the parents but we also have to look at society as well. My daughter will be 13 in April and I have noticed that even though she is in a small school there is a lot more peer pressure than there was when I was in school. I mean yeah there was peer pressure but it is out of control now. We all think to blame the parents but its not just them it is society as well.
WHAT????? | 9:41 a.m. March 24, 2008
Parents are supposed to step up and actually parent their children????? Who thought this up??? I thought parents were supposed to be friends to their kids not actually raise them!! Isn't that what they send them to schools for???
leroy | 1:00 p.m. March 24, 2008
My kids drank alcohol when they were growing up, in my home no less. We had wine at Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. In our faith, Christianity, it is perfectly normal.
Today none are winos, etc. They make more money than their dad and mom, and they lead productive lives.
It can be done, you know.
Today none are winos, etc. They make more money than their dad and mom, and they lead productive lives.
It can be done, you know.
Problem Solved | 2:04 p.m. March 24, 2008
Moot article. This problem was solved by the State Legislature when the moved flavored malt beverages to the State Liquor stores.
Drinking is just like sex. If you don't know it exists, you won't be tempted to try it.
Drinking is just like sex. If you don't know it exists, you won't be tempted to try it.
Opinion | 3:18 p.m. March 24, 2008
Drinking for most is an uncreative, unproductive, useless way to have "fun".
to leroy | 12:19 p.m. March 26, 2008
Yes, it most definitely can be done. However, why take the chance? Alcohal is a damaging substance (you can't argue with the scientific facts) and it has great potential to ruin lives. My friend in high school was gone for a week and when she came back we found out why she wasn't there. She had gone to her mom's apartment one Friday and found that her body had been rotting there for a week. Her mom was an alcoholic who's liver had failed and had died earlier that week. Unfortunately, instead of learning from her mom's mistakes she had now taken to drinking heavily and is headed down the same path. So again, I ask, why take the chance?
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