Of legal age essays

Of legal age essays I feel that the legal drinking age should be lowered from twenty-one to eighteen. In foreign countries children are given wine and alcoholic drinks at dinner. This I feel promotes alcohol awareness. I also feel that if people eighteen to twenty were able to drink legally the appeal of drinking would not be there. A lot of people quit smoking and binge drinking as soon as they turn eighteen and twenty-one, respectively. People drink underage for many reasons, parental problems, peer-pressure, and sometimes simply because it is illegal. Parental problems are a main reason for underage drinking it creates baggage. This baggage carries with the freshman into their first year in college, and many students are overwhelmed by it and are not ready for the excitement and risks that they will encounter during their first year at a university. From classes to sex, from relationships to drinking, from religion to social clubs, students decide the order in which to try them. The thrill of entering a college bar where mom and dad cannot bear witness to the illegal activity of underage drinking can excite some people. The host does hold the responsibility of all guests at a party, and what happened at these parties may not be dismissed, but perhaps the people responsible for their deaths is a greater one, the ones that made the statement that "you must be at least twenty-one years old to enter this bar." The solution that lawmakers and people in power find when those who are underage get sick or die from the effects of alcohol is to tighten the reigns on the control of bars by restricting the customers whom they can honor to a specific age group. Their solution is wrong, as laws will still be broken and people one day shy of twenty-one and younger will continue to consume alcohol. The answer to the problem of underage drinking is not to add more restrictions, rather, it is simple: get rid...