dream_weaselThe dinner my now 5 year old requested for her birthday. Steak, bacon, grapes, and broccoli with cheese
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 The wine is just for the adults
Awww… But it’s their birthday!
We still (😭) live in the US, dammit!
You can do lots of stuff in the US. Just don’t get caught!
Pretty sure giving alcohol to your own children, in your own house, is just fine (er… Legally speaking!). Hell, kids are allowed to partake in drinking the communion wine at church.
Yeah but then you’d have to go in a church.
People often say “god is everywhere”, or whatever. Just invent a religion and decree that your house is a church of it.
As a bonus, it also works for tax evasion.
If God is everywhere, He’s up your ass too.
And also up yours.
God is up all our asses on this blessed day.
Speak for yourself, Ken M
I’ve never given my kid alcohol, but I think the reason kids can have communion wine is that the law addresses a blood alcohol level. This is to accommodate things like communion wine and medicines, like NyQuil, that have small amounts of alcohol as one of their ingredients. (This is based on a post I read back when I used Reddit.)
Pretty sure that if a legal authority saw you hand your five year old a beer or spirit, they’d have something to say about it.
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!