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Please write this section and add it to this dumb article if you want it tyo tell something new. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.24.210.145 (talk) 17:13, 4 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Misleading

"Legal Drinking Age" is so misleading. Take USA and Germany: in the US, someone below the local legal drinking age *is* prosecuted (I suspect it's all or almost all states) if caught drinking. In Germany, nothing of the sort happens. So, if a 12-year-old opens a bottle of vodka and drinks from it, and gets caught, he gets fined or worse in most of the US, but only gets the bottle taken away in Germany (it's illegal to tolerate the consumption by minors, though the law, as far as I read it, is unclear who exactly this applies to). And would then get questioned who sold or gave him the stuff (or made it accessible to him). Same for buying: it's not illegal to purchase vodka at 12 in Germany, it's only illegal to *sell* it. In the US, both the seller and the kids buying are prosecuted.

Of course, Germany might be totally alone in not prosecuting kids here. Nah, I doubt that. --jae (talk) 06:17, 22 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

It's the same in other european countries and I guess much others, some even don't adress alcohol comsuption and it's legal to consume it at any age, only the seller is persecuted. I think this article's name should be different. It does not adress "legal drinking age", more like "legal age to buy alcohol". --139.47.72.232 (talk) 10:51, 27 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Lotus of missing info and some misleading statements in article that could be clarified

The laws regarding drinking by minors vary in many more ways than the article states and we can and should further clarify this. Drinking/alcohol consumption laws related to “drinking age” worldwide deal with several different aspects of alcohol purchase and consumption (not all countries regulate all these aspects). As such, we need to clarify language in places where it seems to imply that all countries that don’t outright bar alcohol outright have laws that bar all forms of drinking by minors in public when in fact some countries don’t do that. Thus “underage drinking” can have slightly different meanings in different countries. These are the areas currently regulated by some to all countries include:

The minimum age to purchase alcohol on one’s own
Whether minors can legally consume alcohol in public under any circumstances & can parents give permission for the kid(s) to drink in public such as at a restaurant or maybe even a bar/pub.
Whether they legally consume alcohol in the home, especially with parents consent (and if so is there a separate minimum age for this).
Whether children bared from being in bars/pubs/drinking establishments at all.
Whether they different age minimums applies to different types of alcohol such beer/wine vs hard liquor, for example.
Whether the law makes it a crime for “underage drinkers“ to purchase alcohol or only for retailers/establishments to sell to minors but nor for the minor to purchase it.
Whether parents be punished and/or have their children removed by authorities for allowing underage drinking in the home at all or just excessive underage drinking.
Whether other laws related to drinking such as DUI/Drink-Driving laws apply differently if the driver is underage. Notcharliechaplin (talk) 22:35, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Under the Canadian section where it states Ontario's liquor license act permits all those things, the reference used has since been repealed. I never found anything in that document stating alcohol may be given to those under the age of 19 in any circumstance, even from the parents. 2607:FEA8:5859:5E00:617A:E629:52B1:D0C8 (talk) 00:36, 11 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]