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Flatulo

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14. I can see a parent being charged if they provided, or failed to secure their alcohol, from a minor,
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 01:06 PM
Feb 2014

But I took your post to mean that mothers were being charged for not preventing their child from driving drunk, which is quite different. In other words, for being an inattentive parent, essentially. I've never heard of that happening. As a parent whose teen son's friends were always at our house, I took my responsibility to keep them separated from alcohol quite seriously. Zero tolerance. One violation resulted in a permanent ban from our home for one kid who though he was clever.

But once they were outside of my jurisdiction, I had no control over their actions. Thankfully my son has always had an aversion to intoxication. He's 24 now and made it through those difficult teen years just fine.

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