Imagine your teen goes to a gathering at a friend’s house to play video games ... watch TV ... stay the night ... attend a birthday party or just hang out. Now imagine you find out that the adults present in this home allowed your teen to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana. They didn’t necessarily provide the alcohol and/or drugs; they just turned their heads and did nothing to stop it.
They didn’t call you.
They didn’t pour it out or take it away.
They didn’t tell your teen or any of the teens present at their home that it is not alright for them to party in their home because they are underage.
Are you comfortable with another adult making the decision for you that it is okay for your teen to party?
What if the adults present in this home knowingly allow your teen to get wasted when they stay the night and you never know about it? What if your teen repeatedly goes to this house to party without your knowledge and develops an addiction? What if your teen gets drunk or high at this house, then gets in their vehicle to drive home and has a wreck and kills another person, a family or themselves? What if your teen goes to this home to party and overdoses and dies?
Does another adult have the right to make the decision that it is safer for your child to party at their house, under adult supervision, than you?
Tell your legislators that social hosting in not acceptable in our state. Ask them to support the legislation that is currently before them, HB 1211 - Cody's Law, which will eliminate the loopholes and strengthen our state’s current social host law.
Tell them it is YOUR decision!
Follow Cody's Law at www.facebook.com/cody.greenhaw and like this page if you agree that social hosting needs to stop in Oklahoma. Share this link with other concerned parents and community members.
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