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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5089879, member: 71"] You offerinig alcohol to underaged students may not be the best idea. In the spring of I believe 2007 (I could be off by a year) I was working in Westchester county and a very big story broke. The parents of a HS senior, being the [I]cool parents[/I] that they were, hosted a pre-prom party for their son, his date, and a number of their HS friends who were attending the prom. They served alcohol to the kids (from their story, very little, just to show they were treating them as adults) and later that evening a handful of things that could go wrong when kids drink went wrong, leading to a number of lawsuits. The parents who hosted the party stated that if there was any overdrinking, it had to have occurred after the kijds left their house. As [B]a[/B]) there was the on record admission that they did willingly serve alcohol to minors and [B]b[/B]) nobody was able to provide proof (or get anyone to admit) that the kids did overindulge on their own later in the evening, they ended up needing to sell their home to help settle damages and the father was required to spend some time in jail. Be careful as to what situations you put yourself in. If you hand one eighteen year old a beer and later on he binge drinks and causes damage to himself or someone else, you may have no way out of the responsibility even if the beer you gave him on its own would not have caused any problems. [/QUOTE]