As a parent I find the difference between 5 and 6 a little difficult to understand! :)
Do you have a pointer to the legislation, Mike? I was looking for it but didn't find. My understanding is that you can't buy until
16 (cigarettes either) but that "consommation" was permitted.Interested if there is a Napoleonic text, as for most everything else. ;)
-E
Hello, Mike! You wrote on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:38:12 +0100:
MT> Even in France, with its fairly easy attitude towards MT> alcohol (though it has changed radically in the last 3 MT> years), you cannot legally give a child alcohol. You have MT> to be 16 to consume beer or wine and 18 to consume hard MT> liquor. I would be surprised if the UK had such a lax MT> legislation.
MT> And yes, I would not give my child alcohol, except a sip of MT> wine maybe, but no more. And besides, children in general MT> do not like it...
I was brought up in Britain and was allowed about a teaspoonful of dessert wine on special occasions like Xmas and family celebrations. At the age of 7 or so, I decided I did not like wine at all and did not touch alcohol again until college. Ah, decline and fall!
James Silverton Potomac, Maryland
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With all respect, I think this is the legislation pertaining to sale or gift by a licensed establishment. It doesn't say anything about consummation in the home. There's nothing here that says you can't give a child alcohol in your own home. Perhaps I wasn't very clear, or misread. I was interested in legislation pertaining to the home, I thought you implied giving to a child was illegal, period.
Ah, the rat's nest of the law! :)
-E
Really? Not even your own child, at home? In France, of all places? I'm astonished!
Feel free to be surprised, but it is true. There is a huge difference between the law as it pertains to licensed premises and what one may do outside such premises.
Andrew.
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