re: Parents who buy alcohol for their 15-17 year old kids

My parents allowed me to drink at home with them as a teen, and I will likely do the same for my kids. I will not, however, give alcohol to anyone else's kids.

lol true...never mind....forget my crazy talk

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I dont see a big deal. My parents let my friends and I drink at our house before we went out. Didnt really need to ask them to necessarily buy it for us because we all had fake ids.

They knew we were going to be drinking. May as well be at a house instead of the levee or somewhere else before we went to the bars

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This. It was never really a big deal. When I went out when I was 15, they'd ask what we were all doing that night and i'd tell them we'd be hitting up T.J.'s, Bruno's, Tucks etc. They said to be careful and to never be afraid to call them if I needed them, even at 3 am.
They never bought alcohol for my friends and I, but they knew we were drinking.

Other parents did host parties with alcohol and it was cool. There just didn't seem to be the overprotectiveness in Nola during the late 90's that you see now.

Just make sure to pick them up and drive them from point A to point B so drinking and driving is out of the question. Never host a party, way too much liability and you could loose your arse in a civil suit if something bad goes down.

Some countries don't even have min. drinking age limits so frick it.


I. Minimum Legal Drinking Ages in Countries
(categorized by lowest legal age minimum for any type of alcohol or purchase)
No MLDA (19 countries)
Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, China, Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Indonesia, Kosovo, Laos, Mali, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Togo
10-15 MLDA (2 countries)
Antigua and Barbuda, Central African Republic
16-17 MLDA (21 countries)
Austria, Belgium, Congo, Cyprus, Denmark, Dominica, Germany, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Morocco, Netherlands, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Spain, Switzerland
18-19 MLDA (115 countries)
Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Cape Verde, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Liberia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Norway, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Vatican City, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe
20 MLDA (5 countries)
Iceland, Japan, Paraguay, Thailand, Uzbekistan
21 MLDA (12 countries)
Côte d'Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Iraq, Kiribati, Micronesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Oman, Palau, Samoa, Sri Lanka, United States
Illegal to drink alcohol at any age (16 countries) some exceptions for non-Muslims may apply
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei Darussalam, Iran, Kuwait, Libya, Maldives, Mauritania, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Yemen