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Most teens still do their drinking when adults aren't around. But many parents have concluded that teen drinking is inevitable, and given the options, they prefer to have their kids drink at home under adult supervision rather than in a park or parking lot. Some parents even play host to "tent" parties, at which they confiscate car keys and provide a place for kids to spend the night. Public opinion, however, seems to be against that approach, and state and local governments are beginning to enact laws designed to stem underage drinking by targeting adults. Adults face six months...
Proponents of the Connecticut ordinances say they address a loophole in the state law that makes it a crime for anyone under 21 to drink on public property but does not prohibit drinking in private homes. "If police go to a home and look through a window and see a kid drinking beer, there's nothing they can do unless they're invited in," says Craig Turner, vice chair of the Connecticut Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking (CCSUD), which has been a major force in pushing for the ordinances. "And even if they manage to get invited in, the only...
Barbara Ellison, who lives in Glastonbury, which in 1999 became the second Connecticut town to pass the ordinance, says she doesn't allow her son Tim, 17, to drink, and she likes knowing that other parents can't undermine her decision with impunity. "Despite what they think, parents often can't control what goes on in their home once kids start drinking," she says. "If teens drink, they usually drink to excess. And you can ask for their keys, but they have a spare or give you a key that isn't even to their car." Ellison speaks from painful...
Marsha Rosenbaum, director of the national teen substance-abuse organization Safety First, acknowledges that underage drinking is an urgent issue, but she argues that ordinances like the one proposed in Stratford won't resolve the problem. "For the past three decades, we have been trying to get our kids to abstain until they're of age, and we've failed to do that," she says. "If we say they can't drink in our home, they'll just find somewhere else, somewhere more dangerous...
...BPD’s need to enforce the law. And we sympathize with the concerns of citizens about witnessing the drunken behavior and public urination of a bunch of crazy kids. But initiating OSS, a move that will increase restrictions, is not an effective way to stop students from drinking. College students will never stop drinking, no matter how many acronyms are thrown in their way. Until the BPD takes a more pragmatic stance towards underage alcohol consumption, the correlated problems of binge drinking and raucous behavior will only worsen as students who wish to drink are pushed farther underground...