Did your parents buy you alcohol before you were 18?

Why'd you assume I'm a guy?! I'm a girl

Aw, your poor mum, she said she'd buy you some if you were drinking at home and everything. She's just being responsible and you're stealing from her.

Yeah from the age of 14, but usually just low percentage stuff, wkd, bacardi breezers, cider etc. They've let me take already half empty bottles of spirits from the drinks cupboard before too. And they knew that I'd be drinking spirits supplied by other people at the party too. I'm 17 and I don't drink anymore but they'd probably buy me spirits now if I asked them too.

Can't you just drink some of your friends alcohol instead? offer to pay them if they are being tight.

Basically, I just had a small argument with my mum over the fact that she won't buy me alcohol to take to a party I'm going to tonight. Oh I'm 16 btw. She said if I wasn't going out then she would buy me some as long as I drank it in the house but because I'm going out she doesn't want to. I'd say about 60% of my friend's parents are willing to buy them some alcohol if they are going to a party (maybe a big bottle of smirnoff ice or a couple of beers - no spirits obviously.)
It's really annoying for me because I drink responsibily and yes I know I'm underage but who doesn't drink when they're underage?! It's not like I'm going out and getting completely hammered.
Normally I catch the train to a nearby town where I can get served but I didn't get the chance today so I'm going to have to go without tonight which I'm a bit dissappointed about (yeah I know you don't need alcohol to have fun but everyone else will be drinking and it sucks to be the only sober one!)

So I was just wondering if anyones parents bought them alcohol when they were underage?

Anon because brother uses TSR and I don't really want him to know that I asked my mum.

Yes. My parents adopted a sensible libertarian approach to my upbringing. I was left alone in the house at 16 and 17 alone with alcohol many times, my parents allowed me to go out drinking and I made plenty of mistakes. Having learned from them mistakes I have not touched alcohol in a long time and my decision has not been through force or coercion, but through a period of which I now understand the consequences of drinking too much. They never punished me for drinking, they never grounded me, they allowed me to make mistakes and to learn from them. Parents that do not allow this process to occur are the ones making mistakes.