Drinking clampdown for under 15s is too much or not enough

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April 27, 2007 at 2:52 pm

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Raj

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take your pick ….

bbc.co.uk wrote:

Calls to prosecute parents who give children under the age of 15 alcohol at home are a step too far, according to a leading Scottish charity.

English charity Alcohol Concern wants a toughening of the law south of the border to tackle under-age drinking.

But Alcohol Focus Scotland fears that putting alcohol completely out of bounds could make it more tempting.

The charity favours the continental approach of educating children’s palates responsibly.

The voluntary organisation claims this could help change Scotland’s drinking culture by encouraging respect for alcohol.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/6598423.stm

bbc.co.uk wrote:

Parents who give alcohol to children aged under 15 should be prosecuted, a charity has said.

The call comes in an Alcohol Concern report on the government’s Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy.

The study highlights figures that suggest a large increase in the amount of alcohol being drunk by 11 to 13-year-olds.

Public health minister Caroline Flint told the BBC she did not think the proposals would be enforceable.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6596515.stm
April 27, 2007 at 3:03 pm

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General Lighting

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surely parents (unless they are themselves suffering alcohol problems and in which case social services should be monitoring the family) are in a good enough position to decide whether their children are old enough to drink or not?

I don’t see why we can’t have the same attitude as the European countries and it depends on individual family circumstances anyway.

I’m not even sure that that many more teens are drinking at an earlier age (I started drinking at home around age 13 and was fairly regularly drinking outside by age 15)

I suspect its more that kids boast on surveys to look older, plus CCTV and moaning minnies with mobiles are alerting cops and other authorities to young teenage street drinkers who would have otherwise been ignored back in the 1980s
April 27, 2007 at 3:10 pm

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cheeseweasel

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How is banning this going to have any effect on britain’s drinking culture? It’s a quick-fix solution that won’t fix anything. If we want to sort out the problem the government needs to address the issues that are causing kids to drink in the first place (nothing better to do, more stressful lives, consumer culture, the fact that every adult goes out on the weekend and gets battered or whatever) rather than making it difficult for them to get alcohol, cos let’s face it, teenagers will always be able to buy it if they want to, putting resitrictions on it will just make them more determined and pissed off. Parents should be allowed to decide for themselves what to give to their own kids in their own fucking homes. How could they expect to enforce this law anyway, cameras in our houses or something? :you_crazy
April 27, 2007 at 3:12 pm

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Raj

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plus the taboo factor will make it much more exciting…nothing like telling kids what they cant do to make them want to…
April 27, 2007 at 3:14 pm

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I drank at home when i was about 10/11 at xmas and other occasions, Did me no harm i didnt hang about the streets “drinking” :groucho: just didnt appeal to me.

This in no way will help we should allow kids to have a tipple at younger ages as then its not this magical thing they want to do.
April 27, 2007 at 3:49 pm

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MisterDuck

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me dad let me and me mates drink in the house since 12-13, obviously at 12 we had a “restriction” on how much but it was better than out on the streets innit? also from as young as i can remember me and me brothers were allowed to drink on special occasions.

most european countries have really liberal drinking ages, and britain is an exception. however we have the biggest binge drinking culture in europe. hmmm…. not much logic goin on there.

drinkin from younger under the supervision of adults means kids learn how to respect drink and get drunk have a laugh but not really fuck themselves up or be irresponsible.

since when did an authoritarian approach to these kinda things ever work?
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