Parents, guardians, and siblings should be encouraged to look out for each other, so as to avoid situations, where teenagers and adolescents try to seek solace in alcohol. School and Peer Influences It is well known that during adolescence and puberty, youths usually strive to gain acceptance from their peers. It is through the need to gain this acceptance that some teenagers start consuming alcohol. Teenagers and adolescents often want to belong to certain groups whose behaviors and values are similar. If drinking alcohol is a normal activity for a given peer group, then a teenager who associates himself or herself with such a group is more likely of becoming an underage drinker.
Prohibition had not stopped people from drinking; neither will a law stating a legal age limit. Many teens have tried alcohol at least once in their life, even some as young as 5th grade. There is a lot of peer pressure, and the idea of looking and being 'cool' is what makes these teens try alcohol. However, lowering the drinking age to eighteen would decrease that problem, of course it would not stop those under eighteen from drinking, but that can be somewhat controlled by parents and adults in the lives of the youths. If the age limit was lowered the alcohol would no longer be a forbidden, therefore it would not be as appealing as it would normally.
There are free facilities that will hand out free birth control to students, why not antidepressants? This is only as long as they have had a medical evaluation advising them to be on the medication. There also needs to be more education on effects of drugs and alcohol associated with youth suicide. Completed suicide often happens when a child is under the influence (Doey & Steele, 2007). One way to keep illegal drugs and alcohol out of the hands of our youth would be to increase the legal drinking age and add to the severity of the punishment for drinking
J October 18, 2012 Minors Drinking Age Under age drinking is a major problem. Lowering the drinking age to 18 when with a parent or legal guardian could help this problem in many ways. Parents being able to educate minors watch over minors and limit them, and keep minors from getting in trouble with the law could help limit or stop under age drinking from being a problem. Letting minors drink with adult supervision could be a safe way to educate them about alcohol. First, parents should get to decide what there kids get to do while they are with them.
Other countries with low drinking ages do not have major health problems concerning alcohol and their young adults, thus proving alcohol is not necessarily unhealthy for developing young adults. The Federal Government should lower the legal drinking age to eighteen because citizens are treated as adults at eighteen so they are mature enough to vote, get married, go to war, and be prosecuted as adults so they should be able to buy alcohol. The law pushes students to drink in private places to avoid trouble, and with adults non-existent, inexperienced heavy drinking, assault, and sexual misconduct is far more likely to occur. Students find it very hard to get along with college faculty and police officers because of the harsh penalties students receive from them. Among young adults the high drinking age is a very unpopular law, thus faculty and police who are responsible for the enforcement the law become unpopular, creating animosity between students and their officials.
Cristy Martinez Period: 07 Mrs. Zachan Language Arts November 01, 2011 The Catcher in the Rye The Catcher in the Rye should not be banned from schools. There are many schools who think that Catcher is a bad influence on teens however it is quite the opposite. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger should not be banned from schools because teenagers can learn from Holden’s mistakes and teens are mature enough to tell wrong from right. Many parents are appalled and think that the book should be banned because of the profanity, teenage sex, and other inappropriate behaviors. However, there is a reason to all his misbehavior.
What society intended as vehicles for entertainment and bringing families together, has proven to be harmful to the minds of adolescents. Parents can no longer depend on society as a whole for moral advice in rearing children. Over two decades of research confirms that families and particularly parents are an important influence on whether their teenagers become pregnant or cause a pregnancy. In a variety of ways, parental behavior and the nature of parent/child relationships influence teens' sexual activity and use of contraception. While parents cannot determine whether their children have sex, use contraception, or become pregnant, the quality of their relationships with their children can make a real difference (Miller, 1998).
When someone tells me not to do something, it makes me want to do it more. If I'm allowed to do something I don't do it as much, because I know I can do it whenever, without consequences. Most teens are scared of getting caught and calling their parents to come get them, because they can't drive home. So teens get in their cars and drive home, avoiding getting in trouble. If the drinking age was lowered, they would legally be allowed to drink.
But the research has shown that there is not much problem with the children who is drinking from 18. Due to the strictness of the law the children are forced to drink by hiding. Opposing people also say that the children of the age 18 can smoke and we know smoking is also injurious to health. If one can smoke from the age 18 then why can they drink from the same age? Smoking also causes the heart problem and cancer, so it should be also banned or smoking age should also be
And all of these countries tend to have less problems and drunk driving accidents than America does. This is because these kids are introduced to alcohol at a young age and learn to control themselves and build an early tolerance to alcohol. The kids are therefore more mature than American kids and learn how to show responsibility at a young