Essay On Underage Drinking

Underage drinking is one of the biggest problems facing America today. Teens who abuse alcohol often turn to a life of crime, or suffer mental or physical breakdowns. In many cases the teen may even die from attempt suicide or car accident. In Montgomery Country two teenager was killed in a car accident, after leaving a party drunk and driving over the speed limits. Knowing that they were underage, if the father who hosted the party had never let the teens drink, then the two death could have been prevented (Fitzgerald. Par. 1-4). This is of course an extreme case of alcohol usage among teens, and it is often not this severe. The best way to prevent underage drinking is to start family planning and prevention programs at an earlier age. It
Children grow up thinking that everything their parents do is right. The problem is when parents drink alcohol around their children too often. After seeing it around for so long, children would experiment with alcohol thinking that it is okay since their parents are doing it. Stress can be a cause of alcohol exposure toward young children’s as well (Lyness, A. Par. 6). Parents who don’t know how to handle stress will often use alcohol as a gateway, and exposing it to their children more than
Some common cause of stress are illness, poor housing, larger than average family size, drug abuse, unemployment, or the presence of a new baby (Goldberg. Par. 1). A huge amount of cases of underage drinking come from families living in poverty, poverty can cause or result of any one of the most common stress factors (Goldberg. Par. 1-2). When people are under stress they often will drink it off, but while drunk they may lash out at their kids for the littlest incident. If lashing out happen too often, they may start to physically abuse their kids. Children who experience this may fall into a stressful and depressing state, which may encourage them to follow their parent’s foot step in drinking and abusing their kids when they become a