It was HIS house. That, and she was warned by both her Mom and the grandparents. She had a habit that they knew of before the birthday celebration.
Regardless of the enforcement authority, which is your focus, I find it sad that a family event is of little concern to the children. It pertains to the subject matter of this thread.
Indeed, and Judge Bork was ridiculed for pointing this out in his book, "Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline."
Bork contends that the invention of the transistor radio allowed young people to develop a subculture separate from that of adult society.
I believe that the development of this subculture, along with widespread drug use, permanently altered the nature of society. In past generations, the impulsive, self-absorbed stupidity of adolescent twerps was kept in check throught societal sanity until the point at which the little punks"grew up" (When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.). We now have entire generations who have never grown up.
Electronics has enabled the creation of self-affirming subcultures of stupidity.
Thank you for your posts. I missed the fact that it was his home. That actually does make a difference. My grandparents were very respected by myself and my brother and sister but they did not discipline us in anyway. Trust me our parents did 100 times over...lol.