MADD Calls on Adults to Curb Underage Drinking
Glynn Birch, National President for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), issued a press release calling on adults to help in the fight against underage drinking. In response to the recently released report on underage drinking by the Substance Abuse ad Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Birch says underage drinking is as much an adult problem as it is a problem of youth.
Calling parents and other adults the key to solving the problem of drinking before the age of 21, Birch lists two things adults can do to help reduce the problem of underage drinking:
1). Limit a young person’s access to alcoholic beverages in a retail setting and in social settings such as at home, the homes of friends and extended family, and at all social events.
2). Stronger enforcement of the 21 drinking age law and others which call for zero tolerance and graduated driving privileges based on safe driving records.
MADD says the 21 drinking age law saves 1,000 lives each year and lowering the drinking age will not generate a feeling of increased responsibility in younger drinkers, as some people suggest it might. Instead, it is more likely to lead to more kids drinking earlier and driving dangerously.
Calling the prevention of underage drinking a way to protect the future of the younger generation, MADD suggests parents and schools begin at the 4th grade level to teach children about the dangers of drinking and driving instead of doing so once the child reaches high school and must confront peer pressure. Waiting to introduce alcohol awareness until a child is in high school has been proven to be ineffective, according to MADD.
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In a free country, the citizen would decide what to eat and drink, while parents would govern their child who lives in their house. The government does not have a right to impose the drinking age because the government does not own the victims of the drinking age.
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Visit that and see what happens when the government imposes the drinking age on innocent persons instead of protecting them from drunk drivers.
On 2 March 2006, Andrew Hopkins and Grace Chamberlain, both 18, were killed in Ohio. The other driver, age 47, was drunk, under suspension, left of center and speeding, but at least he wasn’t drinking under age! He crashed into them head-on, but at least he wasn’t buying beer for them! That’s what matters to MADD bigots. While the guy accumulated his ELEVEN prior DWI’s, MADD pushed for sting operations, keg registration, counterfeit-resistant ID’s and harsher punishment on persons under 21 who get caught drinking responsibly.
Outraged, fellow Hiram College students went to Columbus to lobby the Ohio Legislature for a tougher repeat offender law. On 27 June 2008, Governor Strickland signed it (SB 17). Who needs MADD?