How does the drinking age law in the united states effect binge drinking?

Question

with sociology in respect

Answer 1

A simple matter of fact is that when government attempts to enforce nanny-like regulations on its constituents, their urge to transgress those prohibitions increases dramatically. When a child is told "no," they'll do it anyway out of human nature. We tried prohibiting alcohol in the 1930s- that gave us the mafia. The drug war gave us the Bloods and Crypts. People have to live their own lives. Binge drinking and its subsequent ill effects on campus life in our colleges is the result of ill-informed legislation limiting the rights of youth.

Answer 2

Immoderately!

Answer 3

Countries that don't have a drinking age have fewer problems with alcoholism than countries that do.  In Japan, anyone can buy beer in a vending machine on any street corner.  In Germany, two year olds drink stout with their dinner.  

If we want to stop binge drinking, we need to quit mystifying it by micro managing the laws here.  If the mystery is taken out of it, people will do it less for effect and begin to drink more responsibility.