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You're kidding right?
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on April 6th, 2007
It's 16 in most of continental Europe...
by weezypops on May 9th, 2007
That just scares the pants of of me.
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on May 9th, 2007
Why? Most children who grow up in places like France and Spain have very healthy attitudes towards drinking and the legal age thing is a reflection of this. They have a glass of wine with a meal from a young age and tend not to end up out on benders binge drinking, as is common in both the US and the UK. Personally I'd rather my kids had an occasional glass of wine with me, with a meal and learned how to drink responsibly from a young age than went out and got slaughtered as soon as it was legal for them to do so...
by weezypops on May 9th, 2007
I'm looking at it not only from what happens in the US and UK, but from a brain health stand point. The brain of a teenager is more easily damaged by alcholo then an adults because it's still forming. And I've always felt the best way to teach a child how to drink responsable is to not let them drink with you, but to see you drinking responsably.
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on May 9th, 2007
Well, that might work too, but I knew plenty of kids when I was growing up whose parents drank responsibly, but refused to let their own kids (aged 15 or so have so much as a glass of wine) who would go and get drunk over parks. As for reducing brain function, alcohol abuse does that to people of all ages, the only way to avoid it entirely is by not drinking. I just think the best way to avoid alcohol abuse is by teaching responsible and healthy attitudes towards it.
by weezypops on May 9th, 2007
Oh, so do I and here that means following the law. And it does hurt everyone's brain, but teens are more suseptable to damage. Plus their more likely to become adicted because they've had more exposer to it. And I've seen it the other way mostly. The kids who's parents let them drink at home think they can handle it so they drink more outside the home and do dumber stuff. After all mom and dad said it's okay. But the ones who are going to get their butts nailed don't touch it all. That was me.
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on May 9th, 2007
Interesting. It was not like that at all with the people I knew when I was young. The kids whose parents were stricter were just better at hiding it.
by weezypops on May 9th, 2007
Oh, we had kids who tried to hide it. See that big man in my avatar, he was good, really good at.Kind of helped he lived with grandma and grandpa who let him run wild too. Thank god for the Marines or he would have been dead in the gutter. But most of the ones I know who tried got nailed. And with the parent as who say "You know I don't like it, but if you do call me." They got alot of calls from other parents and cops about their kid. And the ones who did nothing at all those kids still live in the basement. Just wait a couple of years like for the next class reunion and you'll see what I mean.
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on May 9th, 2007
Actually, that's not the case at all with people I went to school with, whatever their relationships with their parents were or are like. 120 out of the 125 in my year went to university, and usually to Oxford, Cambridge or other top ranking UK unis. Ten years later, everyone has good jobs, good homes, many are happily married, starting families etc. So how we acted as teenagers actually had no bearing on our adult lives at all really, it was just a phase.
by weezypops on May 10th, 2007
Then they're the lucky ones. Over here a lot of the stuff you do as a teen will follow you for the rest of your life. And you usally end up in the same group as an adult as you were as a teen. It's almost like that was the best part of their lives and they're trying to hold on to it.
by P. W. Pasobrio loves Marines on May 10th, 2007
I'm FROM New Zealand and the legal drinking age is 18.
Plus, New Zealand is not 'continental Europe'. We are in the Tasman sea.
Jeezus. Idiots make me laugh.
by alexgenie on June 30th, 2010
Yeah that's complete bullshit.. 18 in New Zealand.
by LukeVeeeee =) on December 7th, 2010