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Originally Posted by mom2twins2  In our area, it's not so much that teens are driving drunk -- it's that teens are driving reckless, fast and wear no seatbelt (even though we have the buckle-up law). We have had so many teenagers die on our highways in just our county and the adjoining ones. And it's most because of over-correcting and not paying attention.
I don't think the answer is alcohol removal. I think the answer is trying some way to get our teenagers to wake up and realize that driving is serious business. I mean, they see their friends die, they go to their funerals, cry and then continue on with their reckless way of driving because 'it won't happen to me'.
Alcohol in moderation does have its benefits as some have described. Another one is if you're suffering from kidney stones, drink a couple of beers and usually they'll pass. |
It's definitely a generation where they all feel invinsible. The number of teens dying of drug overdoses and driving wrecklessly, getting pregnant and STD's is unreal. I'm only 25, but kids weren't like that 10 years ago when I was their age. It makes me scared to have children...I'd want to shelter them from the world! ha