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Cracking down on responsible parenting, here.
posted by PaulNoonan at
1:18 PM
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2 Comments:
Hold on, Paul. Of course it's utterly ridiculous that these people got 27 months in prison, more than many violent criminals get. But I'd hardly call hosting a party with 60 drunk minors and lying to their parents about whether alcohol would be served responsible parenting.
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MDS, at 11:13 AM
I call providing a safe drinking environment when there would otherwise be unsafe drinking to be responsible. I also have no objection to 16 year olds drinking in the proper context. I do have a problem with the lying to other parents, they should have more widely publicized the truth (and gotten permission slips), but I am also of the opinion that some parents are engaging in willful ignorance here. And I'll bet that most knew of it. 90 days would have been about right for lying. I would have simply fined them.
However, my main point is that the kids didn't do anything wrong, and therefore the parents should not be punished.
The Lying wasn't a responsible action, but the party was. And they were punished for the party:
In sentencing the Robinsons to eight years, Juvenile Judge Dwight D. Johnson expressed anger that the couple gave alcohol to the teens a month after a classmate of their son had been killed on her way home from another party that included underage drinking.
The Robinsons have acknowledged a mistake in judgment but said they decided to provide alcohol in a safe environment to make sure that no one at the party would be driving under the influence of alcohol.
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PaulNoonan, at 11:29 AM
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