It was also much discussion recently about a reduction in drinking water is 18. Apparently, one of the main arguments is that if someone is old enough to die for his country in war, when they should be old enough to drink. I know not to buy it. This article gives some reasons why I quite agree not buy this argument.

First, a short story, I read in the paper this week. A group of England, the petition to keep open bars later, on reducing the incidence of heavy drinking. Yes, you read it right. Let them drink more to reduce excessive alcohol. The motivation was - man increase the amount of alcohol before the “last call”, it is the same at a later date “last call”. Me seems that the end of your last call is still a last call, and I simply can not imagine how people drink more to reduce their levels of drinking. This is comparable to the explanatory statement, I read in favor of the proposal aimed at reducing alcohol consumption is 18.

First, as a college professor, I can tell you that there will be a HUGE difference in a term of between 18 years and 21 years, an elder. Huge. 21 As a person, they begin to more control over their own actions and to hoodwink increasingly unlikely, if the mood of his friends. Of course, there are always exceptions, the chances of better than 21 years is more time to reflect on the dangers of drinking and driving a car before being behind the wheel when they are drunk. Maybe they suffered a friend to injure or killing a friend. Maybe they are more likely to their own actions and less fooled by hormonal swings. I do not know the reasons for its decision, that the differences between these two age groups are also spoken, but I can assure you they are.

Secondly, there is a strong belief in the “recovery” of the community on the emotional development and drug abuse. Clearly, if a person becomes addicted to drugs or alcohol, emotional REGISTER its development in old age, that the search began. Someone who, with 14 to drink to have a more emotional age of 14, until they were in a rigorous program of recovery. Why happening? I’ll use alcohol abuse as an example. If someone starts to drink, it could at fun, or amusement. But if alcohol consumption, and crosses the line of research, and then it starts soon to alcohol as a “solution” to stress. A problem comes, and he does not have more to learn how to deal with this problem. Instead, it quickly becomes a glass downs - a snapshot of the “liberation” of fear. It is obvious that the problem is not resolved, the nature and manner, but it is an “impression” that alcohol has been the problem of “less problematic.” So the next time a problem comes , alcohol is the solution - and solving the problems of intelligent behavior ever.

The emotional maturity is a process of learning to solve problems increasingly complex with our own resources. In the process emotional problems flex our muscles and increase our capacity to cope with similar problems. We mature. If all the problems with alcohol are fulfilled, then there is no emotional growth. There is a solution for everything, and this is a quick fix drink. If this happens once or twice, there is no huge problem. However, if a search developed and this happens several times, and then, a person who is free of emotional growth. That’s why a person who hardly begins to drink at the age of 18 can stay 18 years, with emotion for an indefinite period.

If we have clean drinking water to 18 years, then we will freeze the emotional development of a large number of people who tend to alcohol abuse. Now, do you think that many people at the age of 18 years ago and drinking water is correct. But at least there are some deterrent in this event with an age limit of 21 legal But while drinking 18 years, if the legal age for alcohol consumption is 21, this age group is starting to drink, if the age of 18 down. I have no evidence, but I had a bet much more than a share of 15-17 years would begin to drink. The group at the age of non-drinkers to fall, it would no longer young.