ABSTRACT

Consider yourself to be an academic researcher who takes his sevenyear-old son to a Detroit Tigers game. Your son asks you for lemonade and when you buy it at the concession stand, you are handed a bottle of Mike’s Hard Lemonade. You have never heard of it before and you do not know that hard means alcohol, thus you hand it over to your son. Suddenly you see a ballpark security guard running toward you and taking your son away because he had seen him drinking from the bottle. Your son is taken by an ambulance to the Children’s Hospital where doctors find no trace of alcohol in his blood. Doctors allow you to take him home but the police officers put your son into a Wayne County Child Protective Services foster home. After three days the court judge rules that your son can come home to his mother, but only if you are moved into a hotel. You are finally reunited with the family after two weeks of humiliation and ordeal.