Underage Drinking Speech

After a long with your day with the family you’re driving in the night, exhausted and wanting to desperately get to your home. You’re minding your own business as you pass a green light, then a car who’s speeding and swerving takes the red light and rams into your car at high speeds. Your daughter, who’s only seven, is instantly killed as well as your wife. The other driver is a drunk teenager and is driving home from a party. The teenager walks away from the accident while you mourn the loss of your family. Underage drinking has become a major problem in our society and many of these situations happen in reality due to irresponsible behavior from drunk teens. People who participate in underage drinking tend to not think about the consequences
Since the rise in the age of the legal age of drinking, it has driven underage drinking to underground parties where teens take it too far and don't drink in moderation. Statistics have shown that death rates have increased drastically by two hundred percent due to the short and long term effects that arise from underage alcohol consumption. This can also lead to risky sexual behavior which can lead to sexual transmitted diseases since they don't use protection or have multiple partners. Teens under the influence tend to not make wise decisions since alcohol consumption causes many problems in the brain. Alcohol is also a major factor in deadly car accidents, statistics show that one­third of drivers who died in a car crash had a blood level over the legal limit. If teens knew how deadly their decisions can be if they decide not to watch their alcohol consumption and how they affect the families who lose someone due to a drunk driving accident. There has been an increase in deaths due to underage binge drinking in the past few years, to try and lower those rates, we must educate teenagers of alcohol
Since the increase in legal drinking age about one thousand lives were saved per year in highways fatalities. Location of where you live also have a big role in binge drinking, “rural lifestyles play a contributing factor to whether or not a young person binge drink. (Kardaras 2)” Depending on the people teenagers are friends with can lead them into the binge drinking path.
Alcoholism can affect young children as well, parents play a big role in leading their child into the correct path. Children of alcoholics are more likely to become alcoholics themselves rather than children whose parents aren’t alcoholics. Don’t be that parent who drinks with their kid or the parent who allows their child to host parties with alcohol in their home. To try and prevent teenagers to binge drink, parents must lecture their children on the consequences of their action under the influence and create a safe environment where teens don’t feel the need to go out and drink.
Teens go out to parties, clubs, and even in their own homes to drink without