Debate

Debate

1)      Supervision reduces drunk driving

2)      Many teenagers have died because of unsupervised drinking

by charlie Gillis on tuesday, June 2, 2009

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/alcohol-health/special-populations-co-occurring-disorders/underage-drinking- 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age --your laws.ca  ..http://yourlaws.ca/legal-drinking-age-british-columbia

http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/06/02/should-you-let-your-kids-drink-at-home/

by charlie Gillis on tuesday, June 2, 2009


   Did you know that Harvard psychiatry professor George Vaillant, found that men who grew up in families where alcohol was forbidden were seven times more likely to be alcoholics than those who came from families that served wine at meals ? (published in 1983)

   Good afternoon, honorable judge, unworthy opponents and fellow classmates. My comrade and I are going to respectively prove that underage drinking should be legal. My partner has just showed you two contentions; unsupervised drinking can lead to unprotected sex and pregnancy, and also can lead to alcohol poisoning and a general unsafe environment for teenage drinkers. I will be showing you how supervision reduces drunk driving and how many teenagers have died/been injured because of unsupervised drinking.

  To commence, a article in the "Mcleans magazine" "should you let your kids drink at home?" there is a mother, Chris Sieger, who "knew her son Sean would party hard the night of his graduation—and she knew she’d start worrying the moment the door clicked shut behind him. So the Calgary mom took matters into her own hands, inviting the entire class of 2007 from Sean’s small high school to her acreage west of the city for the post-convocation bash". There, with the help of a couple of other parents, she assembled an environment for teenage boozing that Elmer the Safety Elephant himself might have endorsed “. When the kids got there, she made them hand over their keys , so she knew no one could drink and drive. She said "we had a barbecue. We gave them some fruit. We set out cases of water so they wouldn’t get dehydrated". Most of the teens slept in tents in the backyard ,she said. She then said we told them all that if at any point they didn’t feel comfortable they would be allowed to come in to the house. Now wouldn't you say this is a much safer environment ? Now wouldn't you say that every responsible parent would do the same ? Now wouldn't you say that this would lower the deaths of underaged drinking ? If my mother new this was the environment i would be drinking at she wouldn't be as worried as if i were somewhere up in the bushes. Im sure most parents would agree with my mother.

  My second contention, is that unsupervised drinking leads to more deaths/injuries than supervised drinking this is supported from "a 2004 survey by researchers at Wake Forest University in North Carolina found that teens who engage in some drinking with their parents were only one-third as likely to indulge in heavy drinking as those who don’t". This shows that when there is supervised underage drinking it lowers the risk of "heavy drinking" which can lead to alcohol  poisoning, mental health and physical health. Which lowers the overall factor of death. Another study shows that "Supervised drinking, may be reducing the risk of physical injury, says Candace Lind, a nursing professor at the University of Calgary". This is another example of how supervised drinking can lower the injuries and deaths of underage teens. 

   Now how are you  supposed to tell me that supervised underage drinking shouldn't be legal? When those perfectly show that it is overall safer and can reduce mental and physical health. You  just cant! Plain and simple.

1) Would you say that supervised underage drinking is safer then unsupervised drinking?

2) If you had a son or daughter would you want her/him to be supervised when he/she drinks or unsupervised ?

3) Would you say that most teens underage drink?

4) Would you say that most parents or guardian would worry more about there kids when there is no supervision compared to when there is supervision while underage drinking?

5) Would you say that supervised underage drinking is a more controlled environment?

6)

satire-edited

  Satire

Have you ever had someone who wont stop talking during your favourite movie? Well I have and let me tell you its one of the most ignoring things its like laying down and getting a water drop  land on your forehead every one and a half seconds for 2 hours.

 Like why would this random, male, probably aged in his late 20's, who is dressed like a slob be talking through the whole movie ? Does he not recognize that their are others watching the movie ? Does he not recognize that their are 15 people death staring at him to shut up, while thinking in the back of their minds how their going to murder and bury this individual so they wont get caught ? Does he not recognize that the climax of the movie is playing and he is sitting their blabbering off to his friend ? Like this guy is dressed like a slob but yet he still has the money to pay for a ticket and a combo at the movie theatres ? like who is this guy! That's like 30 dollars spent on sitting in fatherly uncomfortable non recline able chairs around 50 other people and just having a nice talk to your friend.

 It is truly just WRONG! I say, just wrong! Those people are very inconsiderate people who will hopefully end up dying and rotting in hell. If you have ever experienced such a person I'm sure you'll think the same!

Inside The dangerously Empty Lives Of teenage Girls

Inside The dangerously Empty Lives Of teenage Girls

  Has one ever wondered what life would be like inside the dangerously empty lives of teenage girls? Dr. Leonard Sax, a family physician and founder of the national association for single sex public education and also the author of two previous books concerning the effects of gender differences on learning,, wrote an article called Inside the Dangerously Empty Lives Of Teenage Girls on May 10^th, 2010. This article is about how depressed teens (mainly girls) cope with their problem in a physically and mentally approach.

   Dr. Leonard Sax expresses how teenage girls deal with their anxiety problems and one of these ways are to use alcohol. He states that 1 in 4 girls in high school are “binge drinking.” This leads to a huge problem of alcohol abuse he states that, “55% of university students be treated for alcohol abuse are females.”

  He also states that teens are becoming more sexually intimate, having oral and intercourse sex, way more then they were 20 years ago. And that it’s just not the teenage boys who are pushing on the girls to have sexual relations with them but it’s the girls pushing on the boys to try and “raise [their] social status” in the eyes of the other girls.

  He also states that “24% of girls are cutting or burning themselves” because of the fact that girls have way more anxiety then boys do. And that there is only a small group population of boys that cut themselves and that they are usually the ones with no friends compared to the girls, where the captain of the high school cheerleading team has a higher chance of cutting herself than the average teenage girl.

  Dr. Leonard is right in his statements, he has the statistics to prove it and many of his psychologists will agree that parents need to control their teenage daughters more then their teenage boys. Because, of the extremes ways that the teenage girls are coping with their anxiety problems.