George Higgins addresses the issue of underage drinking with teens who are pursuing to get a higher education and he believes that the real culprit is not the alcohol itself, but the colleges and universities lack of interaction with the students’ social lives. In the beginning, Higgins states statistic of underage drinking which leads to the proposal of a common thought solution of banning alcohol, but he believes it is not as simple as that. He believes that the reason so many underage drinkers are behaving violently and irresponsibly is because of the lack of adult supervision the students have. Colleges do not want to be held responsible for the behaviors of the students under the influence so that’s why they turn a blind eye to their residential
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The lack of education and adult supervision is the reason underage drinking in colleges is so prominent. This allows students to experience drinking by themselves or with other peer, who themselves probably do not know as much as they should, allowing room for accidents to occur. For first time drinkers they do not know their own tolerance and teens especially tend to try to go beyond their limit because of the mentality that nothing bad will ever happen to them. Many countries in Europe have a drinking limit of either eighteen or nineteen, but do not experience as many alcoholic accidents, because for most of the teens they started drinking with their parents.
Many parents are seeing the trend of alcoholic related accidents increasing within teens and because of these trends some parents are introducing alcohol themselves to their children. For example, my parents as well as my half siblings, who are parents themselves, introduced me to alcohol going into senior year. This made my attraction of alcohol almost vanish. Lowering the drinking age can prevent teens from seeking alcohol and drinking excessively because of their higher education on it as well as getting rid of the dangerous mystique alcohol has on
The lack of education and adult supervision is the reason underage drinking in colleges is so prominent. This allows students to experience drinking by themselves or with other peer, who themselves probably do not know as much as they should, allowing room for accidents to occur. For first time drinkers they do not know their own tolerance and teens especially tend to try to go beyond their limit because of the mentality that nothing bad will ever happen to them. Many countries in Europe have a drinking limit of either eighteen or nineteen, but do not experience as many alcoholic accidents, because for most of the teens they started drinking with their parents.
Many parents are seeing the trend of alcoholic related accidents increasing within teens and because of these trends some parents are introducing alcohol themselves to their children. For example, my parents as well as my half siblings, who are parents themselves, introduced me to alcohol going into senior year. This made my attraction of alcohol almost vanish. Lowering the drinking age can prevent teens from seeking alcohol and drinking excessively because of their higher education on it as well as getting rid of the dangerous mystique alcohol has on