Nov 12 2011
Q&A: What is the right age for people to be exposed to alcohol?
Question by The Patriot: What is the right age for people to be exposed to alcohol?
‘Parents who have a “laissez-faire” attitude to their children’s drinking are putting them at risk, chief medical officer Sir Liam Donaldson has claimed.’
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/full/84652
“Sir Liam said that people who allow their teenagers to drink alcohol with friends could be storing up problems, while middle-class families who dilute their children’s wine are also misguided.”
In the UK, where this question was asked from, the legal age is 18.
Best answer:
Answer by Finceltic
The drinking age should be at least 21
What do you think? Answer below!
21 is the legal age.
I agree with most of the respondents here. The legal age should be 18. If you’re old enough to vote, smoke, and fight in a war, you should old enough to have a glass of wine.
18
17
There is no right age…
I would say 16 but that is young. I say legal age of course. Some wine is okay. Everyone needs to learn responsibility for themselves even older teens. Just encourage them to do what is best and if they don’t they will learn from it. Life is all about lessons.
I could sense some problems though giving teenagers alcohol to drink.
Eighteen years.
Parents should be allowed to expose young adults at home, so when off at college or away from th em, binge drinking limits would be know to these young adults. Colleges report freshman with the most fatalities or other over indulgence problems with alcohol.
The legal age should be 18.