Drinking, a problem that dates back to Noah, continues to have a degrading effect on society. Unfortunately, teenagers like to experiment with alcohol and end up wasting their health and lives away. An issue that was brought up in the U.S. News & World Report October 8, 2007 edition showed the problems that are coming up because of underage drinking parties. Some states are producing legislation that will hold parents accountable for their teens’ drinking. Severe fines and time behind bars are some of the penalties for parents not being careful enough.
The so-called social host are aimed at reducing underage drinking. I’m inclined to agree with the lawmakers. Teens must have a tangible evidence of why drinking is bad. However, stricter rules may just push underage drinking underground. Parents should be held responsible for their children’s harmful habits because it is the parents’ responsible to raise their children correctly. However there should be a means of transferring the adverse consequences of that responsible onto the children (community service hours, etc.).
The long-term effects of parents allowing their children to drink at home will be slightly worse than the effects of teens drinking outside the home. Teens will be lacking a positive example from which to base their adult lives off of. There is only one real solution to the problem of underage drinking: “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6.
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