New Political Debate: Drinking Age

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This is what I basically think it comes down to: Upbringing. Nothing more, nothing less. You can make an argument that peer pressure is a factor, but if the kid is brought up right by the parents with proper morals and all that, peer pressure won't effect them as much, as their choice in friends might be more "proper".

Kids will do one of two things, depending on how their raised: Be like their parents because their parents do it; or be nothing like their parents because they resent their parents for doing something.

I think the problem is that for the majority, nobody parents kids anymore. Which leaves a vast group of kids being raised by TV, and their friends parents, which is bad in itself, because another person's mom and dad won't instill the same values on you as they would with their own kids.

There is nothing - at all - you can ever do to get rid of drinking and driving. Kids will do it, adults will do it, premiers will do it. It's just something that will happen. If you don't want your kids to drink and drive, give them ultimatums as a parents, talk to your kids. Be a fucking parent to them, don't blame a substance they went to because either A) You drink all the time as a parent or B) Never took the time out of your busy schedule to even talk to your kids about the seriousness of alcohol consumption.

The problem lies only in parenting. That's my two cents.