Pros And Cons Of Lowering The Drinking Age
Eighteen and Need a Drink
Teenagers become adults at the age of eighteen; they earn the responsibility to vote and to fight for our country, so why shouldn’t they be able to consume alcohol? Some adults feel that lowering the legal drinking age would cause more problems on the road and in bars or night clubs, but until we give young adults the opportunity to prove themselves, we are just stereotyping every eighteen-year-old. Here are a couple of reasons that lowering the legal drinking age makes sense: eighteen-year-olds are able to fight and die for your country, states are allowing underage alcohol consumption on alcohol-selling premises, with parental consent, and alcohol is easily accessible at bars and restaurants.
If young adults are able to serve in the military with the possibility that they might be killed before they turn the legal age of twenty-one, then why not let them be able to have a drink. Per Rod Powers (2013),
In the old days anyone on active duty …show more content…
Children these days are maturing much faster, so it would seem, than they had over the last twenty years. This is especially seen in young women, not due to them physically changing, but because their fashion has changed. They are either dressing more sophisticated or trashier, which puts the owners and workers in a predicament. This also makes buying alcohol at restaurants and bars an easier challenge, since the servers and bartenders think that the youth is much older than they actually are. Most establishments do not card underage drinkers as much as they are supposed to. States require, but they don’t card anyone that looks younger than thirty-five years of age, but how do you identify someone’s age by just looking at them without offending them? This is why restaurants and bars are having such a hard time maintaining their carding responsibilities, and also why children are able to drink at a much younger
Teenagers become adults at the age of eighteen; they earn the responsibility to vote and to fight for our country, so why shouldn’t they be able to consume alcohol? Some adults feel that lowering the legal drinking age would cause more problems on the road and in bars or night clubs, but until we give young adults the opportunity to prove themselves, we are just stereotyping every eighteen-year-old. Here are a couple of reasons that lowering the legal drinking age makes sense: eighteen-year-olds are able to fight and die for your country, states are allowing underage alcohol consumption on alcohol-selling premises, with parental consent, and alcohol is easily accessible at bars and restaurants.
If young adults are able to serve in the military with the possibility that they might be killed before they turn the legal age of twenty-one, then why not let them be able to have a drink. Per Rod Powers (2013),
In the old days anyone on active duty …show more content…
Children these days are maturing much faster, so it would seem, than they had over the last twenty years. This is especially seen in young women, not due to them physically changing, but because their fashion has changed. They are either dressing more sophisticated or trashier, which puts the owners and workers in a predicament. This also makes buying alcohol at restaurants and bars an easier challenge, since the servers and bartenders think that the youth is much older than they actually are. Most establishments do not card underage drinkers as much as they are supposed to. States require, but they don’t card anyone that looks younger than thirty-five years of age, but how do you identify someone’s age by just looking at them without offending them? This is why restaurants and bars are having such a hard time maintaining their carding responsibilities, and also why children are able to drink at a much younger