Kolanaki comments on The dinner my now 5 year old requested for her birthday. Steak, bacon, grapes, and broccoli with cheese

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.

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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.

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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!

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age

Seventeen states (Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Wyoming) and the District of Columbia have laws against possession of alcohol by minors, but they do not prohibit its consumption by minors.

Fourteen states (Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Wisconsin, and Virginia) specifically permit minors to drink alcohol given to them by their parents or by someone entrusted by their parents.^[citation needed]^

Many states also permit the drinking of alcohol under the age of 21 for religious or health reasons.

If you're in one of the above states, it's probably fine as long as you're with her. As a backup, just invent your own religion that has a special ceremony at age 5, consisting of this exact meal, with wine.

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[–] psivchaz@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I mostly assume it's one of those "don't get crazy and get caught" situations. You let them taste some alcohol every once in a while so they don't get weird ideas about it and go too hard when they get older. But we're talking tastes, not shots. If they show up drunk with alcohol poisoning, I suspect you will have to answer some unfriendly questions to answer in all of the states. (Also, I mean, it's bad for them. Don't do that.)

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[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works [S] 1 point 1 year ago

Well... Our state isn't listed. But if you can't trust Lemmy posts then who can you trust?!

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Nobody snitching!

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