didn't supervise the kill. there is a rash of things going on in our society that come back on the parents like underaged drinking parties in the home. >> right. >> do you charge parents when you find that happening? >> in nassau county we have the social host law which we enacted about 4 years ago and it holds any parent who allows underaged drinking to go on in their home to be charged with a crime, a misdemeanor. the reason is very simple. you have parents making life and death decisions for other parents' children. that's not right. unfortunately, bill, i think what we see a lot, and this is different from when you and i were growing up in the kind of, you know, upbringing i think that we had in terms of being held accountable for our action, you have a lot of parents, i think, who want to be their children's friends. >> bill: permissive parents. >> i remember my mother saying we are not going to be friends. i'm your mother. >> bill: if you hold a drinking problem or drugs. drugs on the premises and parents are in the house or whatever. or they even leave the house, they can be held accountable