If you are eighteen, yes you are a legal adult, but you are still not given all your legal rights till later. The drinking age about forty-five years ago was lower than what it is today, but was raised because of more car crashes. This is because those adults were not educated correctly on the effects of alcohol and what it can do. The age limit should not change just because people are not teaching the cause and effects of alcohol. People just need to step in and show what alcohol can do to a person. The legal drinking age should be lowered because taking in a certain amount of alcohol is considered to be good for one’s health, it will educate kids not to abuse alcohol, and being the age twenty-one is not reasonable limit. Many studies have …show more content…
“Instead he favors a cultural model, common in countries like France or Italy, where parents serve small amounts of wine to their children at family meals” (Griggs). Many families, will serve their kids about five ounces of wine with their dinner meal to teach them to have a tolerance for alcohol. Kids will be taught the positives and negatives of alcohol, and will understand what it does and how it affects them. “...parents educate their kids about alcohol and rob drinking of its taboo allure, which can make rebellious teenagers sneak off to basements and backwoods to binge drink far from adult supervision” (Griggs). Many parents try to shelter their kids from these things, which often makes young brains want to rebel. They will sneak off and try it on their own, which is far more dangerous than a parent being there when their child is consuming only a few ounces. “Now, high school and college kids view dangerous binge drinking as a rite of passage” (Glaser). A lot of high school students make college a dream of there’s to go to so they party hard and get drunk or high. These are those same kids who were sheltered their whole life and want to rebel, they are more focused on partying and trying new things rather than their studies and future. With that said, the drinking age is already not a reasonable