Women and Alcohol - Part Two

This time we were asked to answer 1 of 3 questions and write half a page by answering the question.


Do you think lowering the drinking age to 18 was a good idea? Give reasons.

I think that lowering the legal drinking age in New Zealand to 18 was a bad idea, because now youths have easier ways or access to alcohol, by getting their older brothers and sisters to buy the substance.

I personally think that the legal drinking age needs to be risen to a more mature age, 18 year olds are fresh out of school and are still children themselves, and it’s leading to or communities being destroyed by violent and aggressive youths.

Also it is leading teenage girls that consume large amounts of alcohol to becoming teenage mothers, because they are so intoxicated they are more venerable to be taken advantage of, not necessary by someone they know, but could be by a complete stranger, who could then rape them or murder them.
A good idea would be to rise the drinking age to 20 or 21, to make sure that older and mature people have the choice of buying alcohol for youths, or abiding by the law and making them wait till they are the legal age to start drinking