The Importance Of Drinking Alcohol In The Philippines

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Minors are allowed or not?

Drinking alcoholic beverages in our country is like a tradition to us Filipinos. We drink for an occasion or just having fun. Drinking alcohol is a stress reliever to us Filipinos, but one thing that has not been notice is that even minors also drink alcoholic beverages. There are some parents are allowing their own child to drink alcoholic beverages for some reasons or they just wanted to have their child to have a taste of it while there are some who aren’t allowing them. Teenagers should have experience early so that they can easily be used to it but the main idea was that minors should drink like everyday. There are accidents happened in the roads that they just didn’t show them on the news; there is also a video that turned viral and spread from the internet that some children are drinking alcohol and it is from an adult, which he is the one who let them drink it and recorded it. Drinking might also affect the social behavior of a minor; it can also affect the society if this happened. My stand is minors are not allowed to drink alcoholic drinks even with parents’ consent here in our country, Philippines.

In these days, minors are drinking especially when they are in pain, stressed or they were just called by their relatives or older than them to have a “small” drink; they say drinking alcoholic beverages can make you happy or relieved stress and gives relief to a certain person who is drinking. There are some adults also made their child or