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The younger of my two SILs is one of those former hippies who thought that buying beer for her teenaged kids made her a "good parent". After all, the kids were at home, and they LOVED her for it and being a teen's buddy is every bit as good as being a parent, right?
Her brother (my husband) and I both told her to her face she has shit for brains for even considering supplying booze for a teen party and we wouldn't be caught dead in the same state while she was doing it.
Ever since this episode where parents are being investigated, she's come around to our way of thinking. She's got the driest house in Winnetka now. Thankfully, she learned her lesson from someone else's disaster and we pray every day she remembers it.
Regarding people being hesitant to turn parents in, presumably because of their money or social status--the bigger they are, the harder they deserve to fall if they are that stupid. Don't get me started on snotty nouveau (or even old-money) rich folks who think they're above the law. I LOVE watching people like that get the Flying Foot of Karma right in their fat asses! What better lesson to the rest of the world that actions have consequences: you commit a crime, you do the time.
Adrienne (PNAM-2003)
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