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   XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.politics   
   From: okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com   
      
   "Brother Nate"  wrote in message   
   news:41c6e668-989a-40a4-9742-8870bb7fc65e@m11g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...   
   > JohnR wrote:   
   >> "abuse" by minors isn't a problem, at least not in the way it's been   
   >> hyped by the drug war fear factory.   
   >   
   > I understand that you don't consider it a problem, but a lot of   
   > people (in fact an overwhelming majority of people who have   
   > kids) have a severe protective response against it.  It might   
   > not be entirely preventable, but it's something we really should   
   > acknowledge and take seriously.   
   >   
   Most parents worry about a whole lot of things that they do not want their   
   children to do, using drugs in only one of many concerns.  But smart parents   
   know that they cannot stop their children from doing what they want to do.   
   They can only try to convince them that they should not do those things that   
   the parent thinks they should not do.  But if they do it anyway, good   
   parents will accept that it was their choice, and try to convince them that   
   it was a bad choice, but not punish them for making what they believed was   
   the wrong choice.   
      
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