Teenages involved with Alcohol?

Question

Im writing an atricle at school about teenages involved with alcohol.

Does anyone have any key points on what I should involve?

Thanks

Answer 1

Aside from the questions about why teenagers begin to drink and under what circumstances..ie. in groups gathered together with noting much to do and no place to go of any interest..one point that I think you should examine is how is it that with so much publicity about teenage alcoholism and drink related crime, adults are still so very willing to sell the product to these teens in the first place? And with more and more people drinking at home rather than going out to pubs, are children being over exposed to recreational alcohol consumption in the very place where they should be best protected from such things? How many children, in fact, receive their first alcoholic drink from a parent or at least from the parental supply? You will find that as willing as adults are to condemn teenage drunkenness, they are not, for the most part,willing to condemn alcohol or the culture of recreational drinking and that many children have already learned to regard drinking as normal and acceptable behaviour..even sophisticated behaviour..long before they reach their teens.

Answer 2

Ask yourself what are reasons for teenagers drinking?

Could include - peer pressure, 'everyone does it' , seen as 'grown up', problems at home, from boredom - having 'nothing else to do'

What problems arise from teenage drinking?

- health problems, problems with law (getting arrested for drunk and disorderly, breaking law by drinking/buying alcohol in first place), anti-social behaviour - getting into trouble, causing problems for other people, gangs of tenagers drinking seen as threatening by other people, can cause (or worsen) family and other relationship problems