Roughly 88,000 deaths are caused by excessive alcohol use each year in the United States. Excessive drinking is responsible for 1 and 10 deaths for people 20-60 years of age. This number is far too high and can be potentially reduced. Could it be possible that in America drinking has become so taboo that teens are not learning how to drink responsibly in a safe environment? Teens should be aloud to drink alcoholic beverages in their own homes with their parents consent so they can learn to drink responsibly and possibly reduce excessive alcohol deaths.
"The chances that children are going to go to college ... and not consume alcohol are infinitesimal," said Stanton Peele a father of three who let his teens occasionally have drinks with their meals. The teen drinking epidemic in the United States causes 4,300 deaths a year and cost the U.S $24 billion annually. An average of 33% of High school students drank some amount of alcohol in the past 30 days."Alcohol is a part of life, and I would rather he begin to form a …show more content…
A Maryland Attorney, General Gansler was getting backlash from the media for being seen at his teens graduation party. The parents of the teens gave them a “safe place to party” with a list of rules. “ No driving, no swimming after dark, no girls behind closed doors, no hard drugs or alcohol, and assigned two dads to chaperone a night.” What was left of the list of rules was drinking beer and wine. A mother of three children said “But if you truly banned it at a house, so they couldn't come over and drink at all, they'd just go and drink someplace else.” If you give teens a safe place to party and have fun with supervision they are less likely to put themselves or others in harm. On top of that you will be able to oversee them getting home. Eight teens are killed a day from drinking and driving and it is the cause for 60% of teen driving
"The chances that children are going to go to college ... and not consume alcohol are infinitesimal," said Stanton Peele a father of three who let his teens occasionally have drinks with their meals. The teen drinking epidemic in the United States causes 4,300 deaths a year and cost the U.S $24 billion annually. An average of 33% of High school students drank some amount of alcohol in the past 30 days."Alcohol is a part of life, and I would rather he begin to form a …show more content…
A Maryland Attorney, General Gansler was getting backlash from the media for being seen at his teens graduation party. The parents of the teens gave them a “safe place to party” with a list of rules. “ No driving, no swimming after dark, no girls behind closed doors, no hard drugs or alcohol, and assigned two dads to chaperone a night.” What was left of the list of rules was drinking beer and wine. A mother of three children said “But if you truly banned it at a house, so they couldn't come over and drink at all, they'd just go and drink someplace else.” If you give teens a safe place to party and have fun with supervision they are less likely to put themselves or others in harm. On top of that you will be able to oversee them getting home. Eight teens are killed a day from drinking and driving and it is the cause for 60% of teen driving