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Originally Posted by MLeake
I'm guessing the parents you've seen doing so, were prompted to do so by prior behavioral incidents with their kids.
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I would state my guess differently. There are two kinds of highschool kids who drink; 1) those whose parents know they drink, and 2) those whose parents don't know they drink.
Even if your child has not been drinking and you test for it, you communicate an intolerance.
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Originally Posted by MLeake
I suspect that if my friends treated their kids with the suspicion suggested by random breath tests, those kids would actually not be so well-behaved, nor such high achievers.
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Random testing is a different topic. Wouldn't you agree?
I find it implausible that a parent's inquiry about drinking before a teen gets car keys would push a teen into drinking.
When I was that age the one whose car was conveying us typically abstained. We didn't call it a "designated driver" as they do now; it was more a matter of "my father will kick my rear if I come home drunk tonight".