Can anyone give me real life examples of the changing patterns of drinking between generations!!!!!?

Question

I am doing a feature article for school and need some real life stories of how kids these days are drinking far more than kids in the past??? If you can tell me how much u drank when you were a kid and how frequently you drank it would be greatly appreciated!!!!!

And yes i know this is not a question!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

There's good news and bad news.

  

When I was a teen, the legal age where I lived was 18.  We could go to a bar any time we wanted and drink, and we did.  We'd sit there at the bar, enjoy our beer, no rush.  Many 18-21 year olds today drink all they can in a short time (binge drinking) because they don't have the same access to beer.  

However, I think that at 18-21, I was too young to drink.    Ever once in a while I'd s***w up real good, and the next day I'd realize how close I'd come to major trouble. and I'd not drink again for several months.  I was lucky - although I could have been in BIG trouble, I never had that accident or got caught drunk driving.

An big improvement is the 'Designated Driver'.  That job didn't exist in the 1960s or 1970s.  Everyone drank an equal amount of beer when we went out.  And we'd have been legally drunk if we;d been tested.  Now the college kids I know who go out drinking ALWAYS have a Designated Driver who drinks only soft drinks.  They take turns doing this.  

Answer 2

I can give you generational facts in my family ...I am the child of a social drinker (that is what dad called it),. I had 2 uncles also on same side (father) and their m)other my grandmother, all were alcoholics siblings (also alcoholics watching my brothers as young teens 13, 15 and 17. drinking and passing out after making fools of themselves. I was afraid to drink...Good thing as  Dr. have told me my family carries a gene that makes addiction easy for us  2 of my brother quit but struggle going to AA for 25 yrs now Uncles died  young as did dad.I have 3 children my self son is a heavy drinker started in teens 14-15 even though as parents have never had alcohol in the house so that did not matter. hope this helps

Answer 3

yea, it mostly skips a generation but, it all depends on how you were effected by the person who was doing the drinking, and how you are when you take that first drink. I took my first drink when i was 12 and it didn't bother me, then i i started stealing my dads, going back to my room and getting drunk, he was always drunk anyway so he didn't notice. i started drinking at times 3to 6 40's a day and then when i was 19 hard liqueur made it approch into mylife, i started taking more shots and drinking more beer than a p**n star c---------- in a movies. after a while i sorta didn't bother me much to drink anymore like that. i still have the occassional drink, but its not like that. if they would have had the tv show intervention back then i would have been the most talked about person on the net.