Response on Drinking (13)

In response to the U.S. News & World Report article, "A Host of Trouble" I will be writing about some of the thought provoking things.

I do not agree with what the critics are saying about social host laws, and how they will end teen drinking. In some cases it it true that it was the parents were responsible for the drinking, but in most of the cases the parents had nothing to do with it at all. By punishing the parents it might give a guilt trip to some of the teens and make them stop but for the majority the laws wont help at all.

The parents should not be held responsible for their teenagers party's, drinking and drunk-driving. That does not mean that the parents shouldn't try to discipline the teens early on and when they have done something wrong. I think the teens should have to pay the full penalty. Because if the parents always are taking responsibility then the teens will never learn how to do it themselves.

The main effects of parents allowing teen drinking is that of course it is not good for them physically, and they might get killed themselves or they might even kill some one else in drunk driving. Also drinking in general is not good, so their are lots of family related problems that can come up on the future.

Here is some advise to parents who want to stop teenage drinking. First of all you need to be and example. If the teen sees you partying and drinking he or she will want to do the same think. Second you really need to crack down on them if you see any sins of drinking. Just straight up tell them that you don't want them to drinking, and them follow through with what you said.