It doesnt reflect on them at all. Kids do stuff like this for all types of reasons that having nothing to do because of their parents. Heck, I have had clients that threw away offers from Alabama and Auburn because their parents were so rich, powerful, nurturing, and insular, he thought he was untouchable. It never occurred to him that he if got caught doing something that it wouldn't be OK. His parents always made things OK. As his lawyer, it was my job to make it OK ... and I did. I made 200 tabs of ecstasy and four 20 oz bottles of GHB analog a gun and $2000.00 turn into a single misdemeanor count of drug paraphernalia. The kid needed to be launched. Anyone who knows their way around the block knows he was supplying his friends with the tools to groom younger inexperienced girls into bedrooms. He was a tool kit for rapists. If you talked to him and knew his parents, you know he wasn't a rapist. But he thought it was an opportunity to take advantage of a demand that nobody else was filling. The kid got diversion, I got $20K for a couple of phone calls and some legal research, and dad had to skip his solo hunting vacation that year. Ive had dozens of clients with similar stories and backgrounds. We have raised a generation of kids that have been taught from an early age that they need Rx medication to function at a high level in the classroom. Indeed, many believe that they need the Rx for an advantage over their peers. They view Rx as vitamins or food. So, they view Rx as benign, even helpful. This goes for their recreational life too. There is nothing wrong with the parenting here on the face of it. We would need to know a lot more.