Reason Magazine's Kerry Howley Parents Jailed Kids Drinking

Reason magazine's Kerry Howley discusses the two parents sentenced to 27 months in jail for serving alcohol at their son's 16th birthday party on Fox News Channel's Weekend Live.

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• Parents
• Jail
• Teen
• Drinking
• Underage
• Alcohol
• Party

[MetaMorphy]

At eighteen, you can have sex, get married, star in pornographic films, serve as a police officer, smoke, enlist in the Army, pay taxes, and vote. But you can't have a damn beer? I think if you can be trusted with a machine gun in the streets of Iraq, you can be trusted with a beer.

[OnGuard4Liberty]

"They broke the law and then were suprised when they got punished" --

The law was wrong. There are MANY laws in the past that we admit were wrong...this is just another example of the law being a predator rather than a protector.

Just because it was "illegal" doesn't mean a damn thing. The law is wrong.

[Belgianmeth]

No one was hurt, but they get more than two years???

Jeeses, in my country, nobody cares if a kid drinks a beer at home.

We even have had school trips where 12 year olds visited breweries and could try all the beers. And no parent complained about that.

America, you're crazy.

[oldstyleliberal]

These Mothers Against Drunk Driving fuckheads have never successfully influenced the amount of underage drinking that occurs with any policy or legislation they push by USING the deaths of innocent children as political clout. It makes me sick what tactics they use.

MADD KILLS CHILDREN BY FORCING INEVITABLE UNDERAGE DRINKING UNDERGROUND. WHEN YOU HAVE NEO-PROHIBITIONIST NAZIS BREATHING DOWN YOUR NECK LOOKING TO FUCK U, YOU TEND NOT TO DO THE RESPONSIBLE THING IN AN EMERGENCY OUT OF FEAR.

[LEDZEP9292]

21???? dats rough!

[leftydanvball]

The justice system teeters between seeing things as black and white vs shades of gray. In this case they chose black and white. I would have given the parents 80 hours of community service. The government broke up a family and spent 100k+ just on jail time for questionable judgement. Reason did not prevail here.

[dogsgrowbeardsallovr]

that bites, I bet some kid or neigbor squeeled on them. The drinking age needs to be lowered to sixteen or somthing, but before that I think marijuanna needs to be legalized. Its alot safer in my opinion. I know someones going to be hate'n on me for saying that.

[jrobertwood]

Kerry makes a great point at 2.30. Its rare when someone actually says something thoughtful on Fox.

[andretheking86]

all i want to know is, whos the little shit who snitched this cool ass mom out?

[heavydrinker1]

wow that sucks..in Wisconsin i can legally drink with my parents underage (idk about other states) ..im 20 and goto the bars with my parents all time so id be safe..but the other kids are f*cked

[kwalk30]

Note: Kerry Studied philosophy. I wonder if that's how she got to be so reasonable or if it's just a natural talent.

[kwalk30]

Shut up fat ass.

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D.A.M.M.: Drunks Against Madd Mothers