A Short Note On Social Problems With Youth

Based on information taken from NIH (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism) by the age of fifteen around half of teens have had at least one drink and seventy percent by that age of 18 have had a drink. It seems harmless for youth to experiment with alcohol but there are serious risks that come with underage drinking such as injury, sexual assault, and even death. In 2008 there were more than one hundred ninety thousand underage people to visit the emergency room for alcohol related injuries. Drinking can impair decisions on sexual activity and can lead to sexually assaulting someone, or if in a crowd of drinkers the chance of being sexually assaulted is increased and even more so when it comes to youth. Alcohol in youth can even lead to death, around five thousand death are reported annually for alcohol related underage deaths. To help prevent underage drinking you can learn to look for signs in your youth. Look for problems in school, lack of concentration, bad memory, less regard for appearance, signs of alcohol use like smell and containers. If you are underage and thinking about drinking, don’t, wait tell you’re the appropriate age and then only drink in moderation and responsibly, also avoid youth that would pressure you into drinking, what may be cool isn’t the way to success.

In 1919, The US ratified the 18th Amendment which is declared illegal to manufacture, transport, and sell alcoholic beverages. Between from 1920 to 1933 America has promulgated prohibition who drunk because most men drunk in most times even during break time off work. They gradually lost their control and taking abuse, crime on their children. A lot of problems happened in the family like violence, fighting, and the worse thing is the divorce. Drunken men who did not work at all would not be able to afford, provide, and care for their families. America repealed Prohibition for three main reasons during this time: the Volstead Act because it was a law, the act of Congress that helped to prevent people from selling alcohol, illegal but it failed, Progressive Movement because it showed how many serious problems happened behind drinking that affected to life, and social evils of drinking. While there are three main causes, the most significant cause the repeal of Prohibition in America was social evils or consequences of drinking because in (Doc. B) homicides increased which made crime raised and thousands of Americans killed, the scenes of the US government (Doc.D) because the governor violated the law, and depression (Doc. A) because Uncle Sam, the US government worked with gangsters, racketeer, bootlegger, and dope seller.

During the era of 1920-1933 could best be characterized as the path to a sober nation. This time of history consisted of the eighteenth amendment which was passed on October 28th 1919; Volstead Act. The Volstead act was created to carry out the movement of prohibition. In addition, Prohibition is the legal prohibiting of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic drinks for common consumption according to dictionary.com. Furthermore, this amendment concurs that alcohol beverages could not be made, transported, or sold legally in the United States. People started to trust that drinking would demolish ones character, change politics, and created crime. On the other hand, the prohibition amendment did lower alcohol consequences outcomes, in the end this amendment should never have been passed as it caused more organized crime and an increase of problems with our economy.

There were organizations in place in the 1800’s to prohibit alcohol in the United States (Levinthal, C.F., 2012, 56). With drinking on the rise, these organizations attempted to make drinking to be done in moderation. Later the organizations changed direction to prohibiting drinking all together. The organization blamed alcohol on the crimes that were being committed. Women were not allowed in places that sold alcohol, so they felt if it was prohibited it would make the men spend more time at home. Disband of alcohol would allow more income for the family, cut down on the one who would drink during lunch. The purpose for prohibition was to cut down on crimes that were supposed to be caused by alcohol drinking. But stopping the sale of alcohol

Even though some might think that in some countries outside the US where the drinking age is 18 or lower, things are going fine. In fact Carla Main the author of Bulldozed (Encounter Books, 2007) mention in her article about “Underage Drinking and the Drinking Age” that countries outside USA alcohol drinkers are“25 percent heavy drinkers” while inside the USA alcohol drinkers are only “ 15 percent heavy drinkers” that shows us that binge drinking in countries outside united state are much more than US (Main

If we want to stop the alarming rise in the number of high school and college kids abusing alcohol, we have to figure out first why they 're doing it. (Ruth Ann.). There are many reasons of teens drinking, such as: enjoyment, stress, social groups, etc. In countries where socialization to drinking is the norm, teens learn how to drink with moderation and avoid to get drunk. Imagine a young boy who started drinking on his early

The United States is one of the four countries in the world with a legal drinking age as high, or higher, than 21 years of age. Reportedly the reason for this is because it helps to lower th

One of the biggest problems that came about because of Prohibition was the rise in alcohol related crimes. This was simply because people weren’t willing to give up old habits. “Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and make crimes out of things that are not crimes.” (Abraham Lincoln, 1840). Since every person who took a sip of an alcoholic

Many might ask why most teens have the urge to drink? Some might say we all go through that “stage” but people have done studies on why some go through this “stage”. People use alcohol for numerous reasons; peer pressure,

Most of the world allows you to drink legally at ages eighteen or nineteen. For example, France starts to allow children at the age of six or seven to have wine. It starts out watered down, but as the children get older, they move onto moderate sized glasses full of regular wine. By the time they get to the drinking age of eighteen, they know how alcohol affects the body and how much they can drink without getting drunk. This allows the children in France to respect alcohol, which leads to lower deaths caused from alcohol abuse. The children do not feel the need to hide the alcohol from their parents, unlike here in America. Most kids have tried alcohol before they turn twenty-one, and they hide it from their parents. This creates a whole new problem. If someone would get alcohol poisoning or anything else that might be serious, most teens would not go for help due to the fact that they would get in trouble. Also, when Americans finally turn twenty-one they go out and get really drunk, which leads to alcohol abuse.

The prohibition of alcohol in the 1920’s to 30’s in the United States is one of most famous or infamous times in recent American history. The intention was to reduce the consumption of alcohol by eliminating businesses that manufactured, distributed and sold it. According to this law, all the manufacturer and sale of drinks even the transport of drinks which content over 0.5% of alcohol are illegal. Drinking in your home was not offense, but drinking with friends or holding a banquet was illegal. And it is necessary to know that the prohibition only restrict the businesses that manufactured, distributed and sold it, it not limit the holding and drinking.

Cydney Charf disagrees with me. She stated history shows when prohibition of alcohol was enforced in this country in 1920s, when the eighteenth amendment to the United States constitution went into effect, many peoples still drunk and operated their own stills (alcohol making equipment in their homes. Charf disagree with me about that, because prohibition of alcohol did not stop people from drinking and they did drink illegally.

A possible reason why teens consume alcohol would simply be just for the risk of doing it (Underage Drinking). According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which is a very respectable health and government organization that “supports and conducts biomedical and behavioral research on the causes, consequences, treatment, and prevention of alcoholism and alcohol-related problems”, scientists believe that since the brain continues to develop well into a person's twenties, a teen may not fully understand the consequences of underage drinking and some teenagers fulfill their risk needs by consuming alcohol (National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism). This could possibly explain why teenagers

First off, alcohol addiction and abuse among teenagers today is a bigger problem than ever before. The root of the problem lies in the fact that the teens are so exposed to the culture of this day and age, leading them to where they have easy access to alcohol. For example, their parents may already be alcoholics, and it's merely a few bad decisions later which could cause the child to have a few drinks and cloud their judgement. This is a big problem because their young bodies have never encountered anything like alcohol before, so in turn, the body does not know how to process it, and therefore leads to their downfall. A publication released by the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse (NIAA) suggests that by age 18, an astounding 60% of US teens would have had at least one drink. Moreover, according to the NIAA, youth between the ages of 12 and 20 will often binge drink as well.

There are some complex causes to teenage drinking. There are social, emotional, and physical causes that influence teens to drink alcohol. The most prevalent cause of teenage drinking is peer pressure.