Should You Tattle?

It's one thing to catch your kids up to no good. What happens when you catch someone else's?

Not long ago, a friend stopped by her house in the middle of the day and discovered her 15-year-old son smoking pot with several other teenagers. She was shocked and angry, but she was also en route to a doctor's appointment, so she ordered the kids out of the house and told her son she would speak to him later. With guidance from his mother and stepfather, the boy seems to be doing O.K. But what about his friends? Do their parents need to know what happened?

Some say, Of course: all parents want to be told if their kids are...

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