State senators heard from doctors yesterday who favor a plan that would limit the practice of letting kids drink at Wisconsin bars with their parents consent.
Right now, kids of any age can get a drink in Wisconsin bars as long as they’re accompanied by a parent or guardian who’s at least 21 and the bartender agrees to serve them.
Paul Grossberg, a pediatrician at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health told a state senate panel that even if a parent is supervising, kids are not equipped to drink because the part of their brain that controls judgment is still “under construction” and those thrill-seeking parts of the brain are going pretty actively.