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Do you remember your first taste of alcohol? How old were you? Twenty-one? All 50 states currently demand that their citizens reach age 21 before they can legally drink. But there's a growing movement that says mandatory minimum laws may do more harm than good. When determining the right date when a young person can take one of their final steps towards personal responsibility and freedom, what's the right answer?
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No, it should not.
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I am really offended by a couple of your terms. For example "hormone happy teams". I happen to be a teenager, and I feel that this is very rude. I understand you are a parent, but, being a parent, you should know HOW MUCH OF AN IMPACT YOUR ACTIONS AND WORDS HAVE ON YOUR CHILDREN. YOU are the number one role model. I don't care for alcohol , and yet my parents have offered it to me on more than one occasion, and I am well below the drinking age. This doesn't mean anything though, because they are trying to teach me to be responsible with substances that can impair judgement. If the parents would educate their kids , not that alcohol is bad, but that alcohol should be taken in moderation, as with everything, then all of these alcohol-related accident statistics would be lowered. I believe that the drinking age should in fact be lower than the driving age, because then the children know how to handle alcohol before they drive a vehicle drunk. If the alcohol age is 5 years above driving age, then those who have just become legal for drinking will be overconfident in their driving abilities, and THIS will cause accidents, not the over-consumption of alcohol. It is the overconfidence of those who are legal drinking age.
- debator101
June 11, 2009 8:08PM
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