“Young drivers (ages 16-20) are 17 times more likely to die in a crash when they have a blood alcohol concentration of .08% than when they have not been drinking.”(CDC) This is why the driving age should be raised and also why the drinking age should be lowered. There’s a lot going through a 15-18 year olds mind their brains aren’t fully developed. Out of all the countries in the world the United States is one of the few with the drinking age of 21, should this be lowered to 18? From my perspective yes, because if they can go fight for the country, smoke cigarettes, tattoo their bodies up, or any life-long decision why can’t they legally have a beer or any type of alcohol? “When asked what the minimum legal drinking age should be in the U.S., Heath says 8, or maybe even 6.” (Heath) When Heath says this he isn’t saying its okay for them to get completely drunk he just …show more content…
Although, all teens are not ready to drive on their own there are some that have jobs to get to or sometimes they need their license to get to school because it’s hard on their parents to get them there because of their jobs. When teenagers are living under the roof of their parents or grandparents or whoever their guardian is they are more parental controlled and their parents may tell them where they can and cannot go. When they are 18 and get their license they won’t have that parental guidance or restrictions on what they can do on their license. In today’s youth they are more likely to go to a party or sit around and binge drink, because they don’t really know what it’s like and so they are going to follow the crowd. "When we raise the drinking age to 21, which incidentally is the highest in the world, it makes drinking more attractive to young people," says David J. Hanson, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at