It's interesting that the young people on the site feel differently than the parents here. I always want to blame my kid's friends for being the cause of getting them in trouble. Perhaps we DO need to accept, as parents, that our kids make their own choices or at least the friends they chose to hang out with.
However, in Dave's case....there SHOULD have been adults around who intervened. If I saw a teen or anyone else drunk on the beach to the point of putting their life in danger...you could BET on me saying something to the person, the lifeguard on duty or flagging a policeman....plus watching the situation.
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