The Changing Age System

The drinking age was moved from 18 to 21 for a reason. The higher drinking age of 21 has saved many lives, helped reduce the amount of underage drinking, and therefore should not be lowered. Many studies from a large variety of sources have proven higher drinking ages have a positive effect on society.

Many people wonder what the age of responsibility means and what age it is. The age of responsibility is when you should be considered an adult and when you are old enough to make decisions on your own for yourself. At the age of eighteen in America, you gain a lot more responsibility and power than when you were seventeen. One of the biggest responsibilities of being eighteen is having the title of being an adult.

First reason to why I think the drinking age should be changed is because by drinking before the age of 25 you kill many brain cells. Your brain only finishes developing when you reach 25 years of age. By drinking before that age you are killing many brain cells that you will never be able to get back. When

In the United States, a citizen is considered an “adult” at the age of 18, and with that new title comes many responsibilities, such as the right to vote and to join the army. However, the legal drinking age in America is twenty-one. This issue has been a major controversy for some time now that faces both national and state governments. Should the drinking age be lowered to the age when legally a person becomes an adult and assumes all other adult responsibilities, or should it remain at a higher age to allow people to grow more mature and, hopefully, make more responsible decisions?

The drinking went up to 21 in 1984 during the national Minimum Drinking Act because if Congress hadn’t they’d lose 10% of their Federal Highway Funds. The drinking age should be changed to eighteen in the U.S. some very important reasons why are because the age eighteen makes you an adult, lowering the MLDA to eighteen eliminates the thrill and countries with the MLDA of eighteen have fewer drunk driving fatalities and accidents.

In the United States, when a man or women turn eighteen they are considered an adult. Being eighteen, they are not acknowledged as teenagers anymore. They have more freedom and more opportunities to become independent. Some of the opportunities an eighteen years old are given are the right to vote, open bank accounts, lease their own apartment or join the military. They have equal opportunities like adults over the age of twenty-one. However, anyone between the age of eighteen through twenty are not allowed to purchase alcoholic beverages or attend bars because they are considered underage. Anyone between the age of eighteen and twenty should not be denied the right purchase alcoholic beverage. They are mature and well aware of the consequences alcohol leads to. Allowing the legal drinking age to lower to eighteen, it will decrease unsafe drinking activities, decrease misdemeanors, and also decrease the percentage of drunk driving accidents. People are considered adults by the time they are eighteen they should have the equal right as any other adults, despite of their age.

Should the drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18? Many people are thinking that it should, but then others think it should stay the same or even be risen. The thought of lowering the drinking age scares people, but it has many advantages to it. I feel the drinking age should be lowered for a number of different reasons that some people may agree with, but others simply do not. They think the negative consequences outweigh the positive consequences, but that is not true. There are many benefits of lowering the drinking age that many people do not consider.

The legal age for drinking should be raise from 21 to 25 years old. You may ask yourself why I’m saying this? Well, I think the drinking age should be increase because in my opinion people that are 25-years-old are more mature than 21-year old’s. first of all, I think there would be less crashes if the drinking age increases. There would be less people on the road getting distracted and speeding. Also, people would not fall asleep behind the wheel. A 25-year-old person knows up to what limit they can go to before driving a car. People tend to get clumsy and sleepy when drinking alcohol. Maybe a 25-year-old person is more mature than a 21-year-old and decides not to risk it by drinking and driving. In addition, I think the

Do you know the danger of underage drinking? In the year of 1982 the well known president Ronald Reagan raised the minimum drinking age to 21 (Choose Responsibility) . This was to contribute to the controlling of drunk driving. I think that we should raise the drinking age to 25 because that brain does not fully develop until the age of 25, it could prevent more deaths caused by drunk driving, and it is a dangerous stimulant and depressant.

The legal drinking age should not be a common controversial topic of debate that people argue about time and time again. It is so obvious to see that when the law was passed to make the legal drinking age twenty-one years, it was the best decision for our nation. Alcohol is the main drug problem for the youth in the United States and as well as the world. This problem is carried over when teenagers get behind the wheel while intoxicated. Although, from studies carried out, young drivers are less likely to drink and drive however the severity of accidents caused by drunken teens outweighs the accidents caused by adults. The legal drinking age should remain as is and there are countless reasons to back this claim.

“’Old enough to fight, old enough to vote,’” proclaimed a popular catchphrase first heard back in the second World War (Parkinson 2013). Plenty of people think that either the legal age children become adults should be lowered. Others think that it should be raised to allow for maturity to increase. The legal age should stay the same, contrary to those opinions, because of a well-designed system: gradual liberties, and, after all, the Constitution asserts that it will.

After documenting the behavior and interactions of individuals of various ages at the Westfield Main Place Mall, it became evident how the social construction of age may influence one’s level of interest or engagement when interacting with others. To further clarify, it appeared that individuals seem to show a lack of regard or interest when interacting with others outside of their age group. This behavior appeared to operate on both sides of the divide, as it seemed that individuals may exhibit lower interest levels when interacting both with people that are above and below their age groups. As a result, it was evident that people who seem closer in age appear more engaged when interacting with each other than with someone who falls outside of their age group.

Gender labels are placed on children prior to and after birth as we are taught about gender binary in an “either/or” fashion (Janssen & Erickson-Schroth, 2013) during early years of development. For example, the newborn is either a boy or a girl and this predisposes children to gender specific ideologies. Gender revealing parties and baby showers are notorious for continuing traditional societal viewpoints of binary assumptions – girl or boy. Gender roles are established at an early age and children learn from their parents and caretakers of what is “right and wrong” in behaviors and preferences for specific genders. However, for children who are sexual minorities this can be a confusing

From my point of view, I believe that the drinking age should be lowered to 18 years old. If this were to happen, there could be many positive results within it. One major reason is that with the drinking age set as 21, you are technically a legal adult at the age of 18 years old. We should be able to be responsible enough to decide what we do. Second, death rate could possibly go down. By that I mean with that being a restricted item and then when we turn 21, we get to drink all we want. We won’t be able to be responsible with it and that is lead up to how dangerous drinking is. We just never learned. Another reason it it all that this law isn't stopping anyone. We don't care, we’ll find way to get what we want. So in that case it should be lowered so it won’t be counted towards as illegal. My last reason is that whole point of having the age higher is that we will be responsible. But in all, age will never have anything to do with the responsibility to drink. If it was lower there should have a High School awareness of alcohol to teach our population about the importance of having this in our own hands. I do realize that many people would disagree with me because that would bring the percentage of drinking and driving up in young adults. Therefore, I strongly agree that the drinking age should be lowered to the age of 18 years old.

It is time the United States made a change to lower the drinking have requirements to benefit our nation. Having the legal drinking age at twenty-one has recently been an un-effective law. Lowering the alcohol age requirement and enforcing it would be extremely beneficial for our society. For over thirty years, the legal alcohol age requirement has been set at 21 years of age. This law has not been very effective within the past couple years with the significant amount of deaths from binge drinking. With the law not effectively working, more people under the age of twenty-one are already regular drinkers by the time they hit the age of twenty-one. Lowering the drinking age to a lower age such as eighteen can teach young adults by drinking responsibly to avoid binge drinking, slowly rather than all at once, and by helping our nation economically.