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

being twenty-one years old. If they lower the drinking age to eighteen years teens won’t be as tempted to underage drink as they would if it was still twenty-one. I think teens drink under the age to seem cool, fit in, and maybe even be rebellious. If the drinking age got lowered then teens wouldn’t have to feel rebellious to go drink, they could just buy it their self if they were over the age of eighteen. There shouldn’t be a problem with lowering the drinking age to eighteen years, because that is the age of adulthood in the United States and kids would need to start learning their responsibilities anyways, and also adults should be able to make their own decision about alcohol consumption.
This solution would be the best solution there is to underage drinking, simply because it would happen just as soon as you become an official adult when you turn the age of eighteen. The underage drinking problem really does exist and it is not something I am just making up. I know this because constantly at school I hear about it all the time and I also see pictures on social media websites with kids my age, 18, holding alcohol in their hands while they are drunk after they have went and partied on the weekend. Once I got in high school I never knew that people my age would actually go out and drink on the weekends, but I quickly came to realize that I was wrong. I started noticing this problem more in the past couple of years, although I’m sure it has been going on way longer than that. I think it is just now got to its’ peak and that is now really serious and kids are actually getting hurt.
Some things that you may be thinking is that it won’t really solve the problem or that I am comfortable with the way things are now, or even it will cost too much money to fix it, maybe even that nobody would benefit from it. I think it would solve the problem. Sometimes I think the only reasons why teens drink under the age is just to make themselves feel rebellious against the law, so if the drinking age was lowered to 18 you may not have as many kids drinking. If you’re comfortable with knowing you may not come home the next day because you got killed in a car wreck due to drunk driving, then you are crazy. Nobody should be comfortable with knowing this fact. Also if you’re saying it will cost too much money, then you’re thinking wrong. Honestly my solution to the problem would cost no money at all unless you are buying to make signs to start a campaign to lower the drinking age.
I know some people are probably thinking that none of these will work and that it would just be a waste of our time to try and stop this problem, but in the long run I think it will all pay off.

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

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