my kids when they are at that age-no, no and no again.
whenever this issue comes up i ponder who the 'cool parents' must be that provide the legal/financial back-up for these ventures, cuz i know when i as an adult make reservations for any place i have to provide a credit card guarantee (or if renting a private home a hefty security deposit)-and to the best of my knowledge, a minor traveling through even a travel agency specializing in booking these things has to have an adult guarantor-i can't imagine any parent insane enuf to take legal responsibility for renting/providing a property for minors to utilize . i just think back to my highschool days when one of the 'cool parents' let/be the name on the paperwork- their son hold a spring bash for all of his 'well behaved', 'non drinking' and 'responsible' classmates at a property. well, the bulk of them were responsible-but all it took was the one couple who decided to use the unchaperoned opportunity to consimate their relationship resulting in an unplanned pregnancy to set the legal process in motion. the parents were successfully sued by the girl's parents for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by virtue of activly providing an unsupervised setting for the teens (and local authorities looked into but did not pursue charges relative to local laws on child neglect because in the location the property was-it was illegal for a non imancipated minor to be in a rental property without a parent or legal guardian present).
oh, and i should add-beyond the legal ramifications someone mentioned re. minors out of the country-i think parents should also consider that if their teen gets in trouble in another state than they live in such that social services gets involved (as in the issue of a minor who has gotten injured or in trouble and authorities find they are in the state unaccompanied by an adult)-the parents then get the headache of dealing with social services in THAT STATE. these are not situations where everything gets transferred to their home state for resolution (just ask a few of my former foster care clients-whose kids got in trouble/injured in florida on vacation, and then got to travel back and forth to florida because their kids pending their parent's arrival were put into the system's protective custody. some of those kids spent allot longer in florida than they had planned on).
whenever this issue comes up i ponder who the 'cool parents' must be that provide the legal/financial back-up for these ventures, cuz i know when i as an adult make reservations for any place i have to provide a credit card guarantee (or if renting a private home a hefty security deposit)-and to the best of my knowledge, a minor traveling through even a travel agency specializing in booking these things has to have an adult guarantor-i can't imagine any parent insane enuf to take legal responsibility for renting/providing a property for minors to utilize . i just think back to my highschool days when one of the 'cool parents' let/be the name on the paperwork- their son hold a spring bash for all of his 'well behaved', 'non drinking' and 'responsible' classmates at a property. well, the bulk of them were responsible-but all it took was the one couple who decided to use the unchaperoned opportunity to consimate their relationship resulting in an unplanned pregnancy to set the legal process in motion. the parents were successfully sued by the girl's parents for contributing to the delinquency of a minor by virtue of activly providing an unsupervised setting for the teens (and local authorities looked into but did not pursue charges relative to local laws on child neglect because in the location the property was-it was illegal for a non imancipated minor to be in a rental property without a parent or legal guardian present).
oh, and i should add-beyond the legal ramifications someone mentioned re. minors out of the country-i think parents should also consider that if their teen gets in trouble in another state than they live in such that social services gets involved (as in the issue of a minor who has gotten injured or in trouble and authorities find they are in the state unaccompanied by an adult)-the parents then get the headache of dealing with social services in THAT STATE. these are not situations where everything gets transferred to their home state for resolution (just ask a few of my former foster care clients-whose kids got in trouble/injured in florida on vacation, and then got to travel back and forth to florida because their kids pending their parent's arrival were put into the system's protective custody. some of those kids spent allot longer in florida than they had planned on).
