It depends on the state. In 31 of them, it is totally legal for a parent to give their own underage child alcohol. Most of them also specify that it’s only allowed inside your home or as part of religious ceremony, so even there you could be in trouble if you’re giving little Timmy a whiskey sour out in public.
Yeah, I saw the other comment indicating that elsewhere in the thread and tried to edit my comment, but I think lemmy.world and Cloudflare might be having connectivity issues of some sort right now so edits are mostly a no go.
The state I grew up in is not one of the 31, so that’s why the concept is alien to me, I suppose; the state I live in now is one of them, but I doubt I’ll give my kid any alcohol for some time. Regardless, thank you for following up!
It depends on the state. In 31 of them, it is totally legal for a parent to give their own underage child alcohol. Most of them also specify that it’s only allowed inside your home or as part of religious ceremony, so even there you could be in trouble if you’re giving little Timmy a whiskey sour out in public.
Yeah, I saw the other comment indicating that elsewhere in the thread and tried to edit my comment, but I think lemmy.world and Cloudflare might be having connectivity issues of some sort right now so edits are mostly a no go.
The state I grew up in is not one of the 31, so that’s why the concept is alien to me, I suppose; the state I live in now is one of them, but I doubt I’ll give my kid any alcohol for some time. Regardless, thank you for following up!