PARENTS BEWARE! When your kids stray you may pay

摘要

IF YOU THINK your son or your daughter has demonstrated enough skill and responsibility to drive your Corvette Z06 to the homecoming game, think again. Along with laws creating graduated-licensing programs ("License to Die," AW, Aug. 27, 2007), most states have adopted statutes that make parents legally and financially liable for what their minor teens do behind the wheel of a car. Even if your straight-A student is a model citizen and president of the Glee Club, one inappropriate jab at the gas pedal could put at risk everything you've worked hard to build.