I am a good teenager, but I drink at parties. Everyone does. Mom invented for me the rule and called it »posed a glass.» If I drank, and put the glass on the table, I do not have to take it again. She set this rule, because several of her friends were raped. When they are at parties put their glasses on the table, they spiked with all sorts of rubbish. I know my mother did not want me to drink, but I think it's cool when she talks to me like an adult. She understands that I grow.

Claudia, 16, of Port Arthur, Texas.

Although 16 years old is not an adult age, and Claudiamillions of other teenagers in America are in a situation where they have to make adult decisions. Obviously, Claudia's mother does not want to allow 16-year-old daughter to drink alcohol, but she put real security above idealism, taking care of that, using alcohol, the daughter was able to take advice and to protect themselves. I understand this is difficult. Perhaps you feel that way as it approve a drink in a conversation with your children, if only they did it correctly. But many young people have told me that during these conversations, during which the parents spoke about the safe use of alcohol and behaved to them as with adults, children, and felt themselves to be.

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