Mother Has To Write Research Paper For Allowing Underage Drinking

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A Fishers mother must serve at least two days in jail and write a 20-page research paper as part of a sentence imposed today in connection with an underage drinking party at her home last year.

Hamilton Superior Court 5 Judge Wayne A. Sturtevant sentenced Eileen Barbour to a year in Hamilton County Jail, then suspended all but four days of the sentence.

With credit for good behavior, Barbour, 48, would serve two days behind bars.

"It's a fair sentence," said Deputy Prosecutor Matthew Gernand. "Underage drinking is a large problem. It becomes a larger problem when you have parents starting to condone that activity, and then providing alcohol for the minors.

"I think the sentence serves as a good message to the community that parents should not be hosting parties and allowing their kids to drink."

http://www.indystar.com/articles/0/147248-6720-092.html

"allowing underage drinking." Just like the title says.

God knows there's plenty of good reason to.

with teens if they could go have a beer when they wanted too. we obviously learned nothing from prohibition. in most of europe there is a much more relaxed mood towards alcohol. I was raised in the UK and recall going into pubs with friends from the time I was 16 or 17. it was no problem as long as you weren't rowdy. if you were then you got kicked out. no problem..

before beginning when I was about 14.

How could I rebel by drinking when drinking was something I could do in front of my grandmother and my great uncles and great aunts?

After a little experimentation in college, when I learned that over-indulging isn't worth the hangover, I've been a two-drink per day max type person.l

The judge gave the same kind of punishment that a high school kid would get, writing a research paper and a two day suspension from life. There's something ironic and silly about that.

alcoholism rates etc. in European countries where kids _can_ drink as older teenagers, and do so even earlier in family settings.

Course I have a feeling that's not what the judge wants. She might get a bigger sentence for contempt of court. But that'd be a good case for a civil liberties lawyer to fight.