Underage Drinking Persuasive Essay

In my hometown of Wayne County there isn’t much to do during the weekends, unless you travel to Somerset, which is up the road about twenty to thirty minutes, to go watch a movie or go the mall to go shopping. Teens my age look for things to do to have fun on the weekend and their thing is usually going to parties and drinking underage. At the time when they are actually doing it and having fun they think nothing about it and that it is just something normal they are doing to have some fun. Little do they know what some of the consequences may be to their decision they are making especially in the long run. “Alcohol abuse is linked to as many as two-thirds of all sexual assaults and date rapes of teens and college students.” (Wootton) So my problem for this essay is simply underage drinking. My solution to this problem would be to lower the drinking age to eighteen years old instead of it

One thing that may make people against my solution is that the adults should be a positive adult role model. With adults being a role model to the kids and not drinking in front of them the cops wouldn’t have to crack down as much on the weekends, because the adults wouldn’t be drinking and the kids wouldn’t be either. Lowering the drinking age would also allow teens to drink with the adults and the adults wouldn’t have to worry about teens seeing them drink and wanting to do the same. The teens could just drink with the adults. The thing with this problem is, is that it is constantly growing. Teens are getting their friends to come party which just leads to more teens being affected and coming to the party to drink. There needs to be something done about this problem to that teens my age won’t get their life shortened due to the consequences that come with underage drinking. (883