Underage Drinking: Is Lowering The Drinking Age The Solution

rights allow you to vote, join the military, obtain a marriage permit, sign legally binding

contracts and many others except purchase and consume alcohol. Many feel this is the best

reason for lowering the drinking age. I want to take a different approach at the issue; I

think the legal drinking age should be lowered to allow young adults to drink under

supervision in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official

school and university functions. We should allow drinking under supervision at an early

age, because this teaches and develops more responsible acts of drinking. In these

situations responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational

programs, this would develop mature and sensible drinking behavior. As we teach more

responsible drinkers, then we can correct our current problem of abusive drinking.

The drinking age is to youth today, what the Jim Crow laws was to blacks in the

Old South. This law segregates our youth, while it is meant to protect society.

Unfortunately, it has backfired. Drinking age laws do a fine job of keeping young people

not be able to have a glass of wine with dinner, they certainly can find a beer at a party.

efforts, the most essential role needs to be played by individuals in our society.

the model these cultures share? It can be defined on three levels: beliefs about the

“Abusive drinking is a serious problem today. But we will never make real progress,

problems plaguing the U.S. Still, our federal government fails to learn from these models,

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