Alcohol and You: For Parents
You are forced to deal—or perhaps have already—with the consequences of Legal Age 21 in your daily lives. In many cases, this misguided social policy interferes with your ability to do the right thing for your children.
Since 1984, you, as well as colleges and universities, have been placed in an impossible position. Though aware of the reality that alcohol is a presence in the lives of young adults, you are forced either to violate the law by attempting to create safe environments where alcohol may be consumed or to enforce the law by creating an environment of prohibition. In the first case, you communicate that laws may be selectively observed; in the latter case you simply force drinking behind closed doors and underground.
Legal Age 21 is not working – not in urban America, not in rural America, not on college campuses, not in, or out of, households, not in white collar America, not in blue collar America, and perhaps most emphatically not among adolescents age 13-17, where drinking is a more serious problem than ever before.
And so we invite those of you who believe the status quo is unacceptable to join us in seeking change. We invite those who believe prohibition does not work, has never worked, and will never work, to join us in facing up to reality. We invite those who believe that alcohol education should begin at home to join us in re-enfranchising parents.
Please join Choose Responsibility’s effort to acknowledge the reality of alcohol in the lives of young Americans.
