The media is everywhere now, it is one of the first things we see in the morning and the lasts things we see at night. The movie industry portrays binge drinking as a “great time” with little to no consequences, so the effect of this is when teens watch them they think it’s okay to binge drink at parties and events because its “normal teenage behavior”. Teenagers believe in what they see so the effects of watching movies where the party always ends in a good way or happy ending. Also in movies when they show alcoholics that binge drink every single day they show them as dirty, old, violent, and living in a torn down place with nothing in it. In reality that is not always true, a constant binge drinker can look like any normal person or even student, but with the movie industry giving us that image students think that because they do not live the same lifestyles as the shown alcoholics they do not have a problem. Media has a huge impact on the youth and giving the image of alcohol being fun with no consequences is why it is a huge reason why it is a rise in binge drinking. A reason not many people think about is the student family background. Family members have made drinking around their kids more open now and kids of course learn from that. Also when the teenagers leave for college many parents often tell them “it’s okay if you party” which gives them an excuse to not feel bad about
The media is everywhere now, it is one of the first things we see in the morning and the lasts things we see at night. The movie industry portrays binge drinking as a “great time” with little to no consequences, so the effect of this is when teens watch them they think it’s okay to binge drink at parties and events because its “normal teenage behavior”. Teenagers believe in what they see so the effects of watching movies where the party always ends in a good way or happy ending. Also in movies when they show alcoholics that binge drink every single day they show them as dirty, old, violent, and living in a torn down place with nothing in it. In reality that is not always true, a constant binge drinker can look like any normal person or even student, but with the movie industry giving us that image students think that because they do not live the same lifestyles as the shown alcoholics they do not have a problem. Media has a huge impact on the youth and giving the image of alcohol being fun with no consequences is why it is a huge reason why it is a rise in binge drinking. A reason not many people think about is the student family background. Family members have made drinking around their kids more open now and kids of course learn from that. Also when the teenagers leave for college many parents often tell them “it’s okay if you party” which gives them an excuse to not feel bad about