Dianavan, I'm sorry, I was sitting here munching my Saturday Breakfast relaxing bacon sarnie and re-reading recent posts and I realised I'd mis-understood your first sentence. By 'Our children' I assumed, perhaps stupidly, that you meant 'The children of North America', and my first paragraph of my reply was therefore completely inappropriate. Sorry about that - must have been the adrenalin rush!

Incidentally, in the UK at the moment there's a big debate going on about the supply of alcohol - we have a big problem with alcohol abuse and its attendant problems of violence and anti-social behaviour, especially in town- and city-centres. You may know that the sale of alcohol is controlled here by 'licensing hours' which specify the number of hours in the day that licensed premises can sell it (pretty well all day up to 11 pm). The liberalisers are suggesting that drunkenness and loutish, violent behaviour can be prevented by removing the control offered by licensing hours - i.e. allow people to buy alcohol for longer, and they won't get drunk! Pretty radical eh? And pretty naive. The same kind of naivety that the 'legalise pot' brigade suffer from.

J :0)