illegal in WA too.

And I believe that at a certain age, the opinions of their friends can come to outweigh the opinions of their parents. My kids know I will have a glass of wine now and again, but not falling down drunk,very rarely more than a few wines and very infrequently (in the last few years, I'm lucky to have a glass of wine more than once every three months) but this good example means nothing in the face of their friends getting blind drunk on a regular basis and their friends' parents making it out to be no big deal. I'm pretty sure many parents of teens would attest to that too.

I'm not trying to be alarmist, but I am concerned by the fact that today's teens (and yes, some parents) do believe that teenaged drinking should be tolerated because 'everyone does it' and therefore it gets more socially accepted with every passing year.