The law in the UK allows a child from the age of 5 to drink alcohol in their own home, do you know any more stupid laws like this that makes you gasp....
2006-07-11 22:25:27 · 14 answers · asked by peter_bain2003 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I thought this question would attract an idiot, but what said was the truth..
2006-07-11 22:29:19 · update #1
the law is the truth go to a law book, a friend who is a sergant in the police told me, and he don't bulshit
2006-07-11 22:30:20 · update #2
I have to say in France, kids do drink very small amounts, and they are taught to respect alcohol, you do not see many drunks as you do in the UK
2006-07-11 22:46:12 · update #3
enriverpipe, thanks for that, and as said before maybe the french have it right, the kids here are far more responsible, I live in France, but I am English, so I can say without fear of contradiction..
2006-07-11 22:51:16 · update #4
I already knew that one. I don't see what the problem is with it really. As you say, kids drink small amounts of alcohol in France and there are less problems.
In my opinion, laws like that are a bit pointless. The alcohol laws can be ever so confusing anyway.
5yrs to drink at home
14 yrs to have a drink of wine with a meal in a restaurant as long as you are accompanied by an adult.
16 yrs to drink porter/stout with a meal in a restaurant
18 to enter a pub alone or to buy your own drinks apart from the exceptions above
Or something like that. Well anyway, I can't see why people don;t just teach their own kids about responsibilty. I don't mind my 6 year old having a drop of shandy at home. Knowing you're not allowed something is the main reason for a child to do it, if you see what I mean. I'd rather teach him responsibly now than have him go out for his 18th birthday and come home throwing up because he has no control/respect for the stuff.
2006-07-12 08:29:25 · answer #1 · answered by Evil J.Twin 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Indeed you are perfectly correct that it is illegal to give a child alcohol under the age of 5, but no such mandate applies above the age of 5. However, flip your question over and ask - if a responsible parent, in response to a 6 year old's incessant pleading to know what Mummy and Daddy are drinking and what it tastes like, gives said child a small sip, is it reasonable to demand that that parent should be charged with a criminal offence? That, my friend would be crazy. Also, consider why nations like France and Italy who have much more relaxed laws as regards introducing children to alcohol in a responsible 'not such a big deal' manner have adult drink related crime rates way below the alcohol-uptight UK/USA/Scandinavians and their rates of 'problem binge drinking' are virtually nil.
2006-07-11 22:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, a child over the age of 5 can be allowed to drink alcohol at home. Presumably if the parents allowed it to happen unsupervised or to the extent that the child became inebriated they could be prosecuted for abuse or neglect.
2006-07-11 22:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by migelito 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you imagine you've extraordinary ones very few English ones it remains criminal to shoot a Welshman on thursdays in the previous 12 noon with a longbow. If an Englishman sees a Scotsman in York he might want to by employing regulation shoot him with a longbow. formally we are nevertheless at conflict with the French from the hundred years conflict , there hasn't ever been a give up hearth. it remains regulation that an Englishman might want to training including his longbow for a minimum of four hours a week on soreness of lack of existence if no longer performed. you would possibly want to purchase a toothbrush on Sunday yet no longer toothpaste. even as finding out to purchase a indentured woman as a servant she might want to be beaten with a stick in ordinary words.
2016-11-06 06:12:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not so long ago I heard a collection of such laws, mainly from the U. S. and the U. K. where law is based on common law and so many shabby ones remained. I can't recall them clearly, but I rememeber that on Tuesdays in Kansas you can't paint your horse red, women can't wear trousers in balloons... etc.
2006-07-11 22:45:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree with eriverpipe, britain is a disaster where binge drinking in concerned, perhaps we should take a leaf out of some other countries books, and educate our children to be more responsible instead we say today it is illegal for you to have a drink in a pub, but come back tomorrow when your 18 and you can have as many as you like, wrong!
2006-07-11 23:16:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is illegal to give or receive gifts on Christmas day. Men must practice archery on Sundays. A hackney carriage driver must carry a bale of hay/stram in their boot. You cannot walk a pig around Bloomsbury Square London.
2006-07-11 23:16:05 · answer #7 · answered by iloveliz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you let your kids have a small amount of wine with you when you have a special meal it will hopefully introduce them to alcohol slowly, so they don't have the need when they are teenagers to go and abuse it.
2006-07-13 05:56:26 · answer #8 · answered by Jayne 2 (LMHJJ) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know any alcoholic 5 year olds with a mortage.
2006-07-11 22:34:36 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it makes more sense than prosecuting parents and jailing them for inadvertently finding the kids helping themselves to the sherry.
besides it know as Parental supervision and Guidance, how do you teach children about things except by example and letting them try things..
2006-07-11 22:35:08 · answer #10 · answered by moikel@btinternet.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋