Would you drug test your kid

• gerb131

  

  I don't think I would and definitely not for pot
• I Wear Pants

  No.
• O-Trap

  

  If it was for reasons that would stay in the family, sure.
  
  For something school related or otherwise, I would not.
• justincredible

  

  I would hope I would have enough of a pulse on their life that I wouldn't need to actually drug test them. I've got 15+ years before I'll even need to think about something like this, though.
• O-Trap

  

  justincredible;1535772 wrote:I would hope I would have enough of a pulse on their life that I wouldn't need to actually drug test them.

  You have more faith in a parent's ability than I.
• Mohican00

  

  heh, was threatened a couple of times in hs.....over weed
  
  Nah, if I had a kid and there were serious issues outside of just suspected experimentation, possibly.
• Pick6

  

  Don't see how you can say no. I'd say every parent probably has no intention to, but you never know what situation could come up.
• Fab4Runner

  

  Can't rule it out.
• like_that

  

  Probably not, but I might lie about it just to scare them. Luckily I won't have to worry about this for a long time.
• Ironman92

  

  Nope....no need
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  Not without reason to suspect abuse and/or risky behavior as result of use. Never had to, but would have done so if needed as long I was legally responsible for them.
  
  I was less concerned with them taking an occasional toke or drink (which I don't doubt they did) than I was with their using in excess, letting their use begin to interfere with their life, or doing stupid things like driving stoned/drunk. You know - the same things that happen with a drunk/doper/junkie of any age.
  
  Hard drugs would have been a different story - unlike pot or booze, they're a high-risk threat in themselves, and I'd have you down at LabCorp in fifteen minutes flat if found a syringe in your room. Even up here in Yuppie Zone, we lose two or three kids a year district to heroin overdoses.
• said_aouita

  

  ccrunner609;1535768 wrote:yes

  Just stick to killing your children's pets.
• jmog

  If I 'knew' they were doing it an lying about it....yes.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  If I felt the need, absolutely. Hopefully there will never be the need.
• Heretic

  

  Yes. And if they tested negative, they'd be disowned.
• sportchampps

  With the amount of heroine molly and cocaine going thru high schools right now I would for sure. It's not like when we went to school and the drug users just smoked pot kids are doing hard drugs today much earlier.
• dlazz

  I probably wouldn't because I don't want kids.
  
  Hope this helps.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  dlazz;1536208 wrote:I probably wouldn't because I don't want kids.
  
  Hope this helps.

  /virgin'd
• dlazz

  ernest_t_bass;1536228 wrote:/virgin'd

  /alcoholic'd
• ernest_t_bass

  

  dlazz;1536229 wrote:/alcoholic'd

  /GERD'd
• like_that

  

  ernest_t_bass;1536236 wrote:/GERD'd

  Dlazz is less of a puss than you are. Hope this helps.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  like_that;1536242 wrote:Dlazz is less of a puss than you are, little guy. Hope this helps.

  fify
• like_that

  

  ernest_t_bass;1536244 wrote:fify

  Still doesn't change the fact.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  like_that;1536245 wrote:Still doesn't change the fact.

  k
• sportchampps

  This also reminds me of an argument my brother is having with his ex wife. She wants their 14 year old daughter on birth control. The daughter says she doesn't need it and doesn't want it. The mom wants her on it incase anything would happen while my brother is arguing that it would promote her not worrying about the consequences of having sex. My brother argues that he will let her be on birth control when his daughter asks for it but not just because