This is any consumtion at any level. This whole story hangs on if any alcohol consumption, at all, under 13 leads to harm. Something they have one quote on.
“People tend to have this perception that introducing children to moderate drinking is a good way of teaching them safer drinking habits. This is untrue. The earlier a child drinks, the more likely they are to develop problems with alcohol in later life.”
To date, in recent decades, each generation in UK, and elsewhere, drinks less alchole issue than the previous.
“There is no clear answer as to which approach is best but, overall, there is little evidence that letting children try alcohol makes them less likely to develop problems with it later on. In fact, research has found that children, whose parents allow them to drink at home and/or provide them with alcohol, are probably more likely to drink more heavily when they are older.”
So it could be we are heading for a fresh boozing generation after years of decline. But it is not clear.
No shit tbh, most of us UK folks often have our first drunk experience when we’re like in our early to mid teens and the normalisation and acceptance of alcohol has definitely impacted this. It’s kinda like most ppl don’t see anything wrong with it, despite giving kids alcohol can literally cause issues due to it.
Quite a different case on my behalf though as I was raised pretty strict in my household and wasn’t allowed any alcohol until in my mid teens due to how much alcoholism ran in the family and my parents being scared due to that plus the normalisation of it too, though didn’t prevent drinking outside of home with those really horrid k-cider cans and me taking alcohol from the fridge that they rarely drank (except beer and I couldn’t take it out otherwise shit would happen and it would be bad) and going out with friends with it.
I believe it. There once was a time, that may or may not be a memory, where the bartender would serve you if you could walk up to the bar and order. You also needed money, but a bit of bartering with scrounged flotsam from the quay could cover costs.
Video games normalize drinking? Well that's a new one. Final Fight & Tekken normalized eating whole chickens out of trashcans… how long until an article blames them for homelessness?
I can see where you were confused. It’s a simple mistake. “Child alcohol” doesn’t mean booze made from children. It’s alcohol made and marketed FOR children. In this economic report, their numbers aren’t looking good.
That’s because kids are legally allowed to drink at home after the age of 5. At 16 you can drink alcohol at a restaurant or pub with a meal so long as you’re with your parents. Only at 18, is there no restrictions to buying alcohol other than you’re not allowed to consume it in public.
It’s illegal for a 5 year old to drink alcohol at their home. That’s why I said after the age of 5 which is the law. Plus I was making a joke which seems to have gone right over your sweet little head.
I challenge you to highlight the bit that was a joke because there was no joke you just made a stupid comment.
The fact that you can technically drink alcohol at 5 is in no way contributing to kids underage drinking because no 5-year-old is drinking alcohol. Underage drinking happens because idiot adults are buying kids alcohol it’s got nothing to do with the drinking age laws. If they increase the drinking age to 21 like in the United States it would have literally no difference
You can consume in public, just not in alcohol free zones. The zones are generally city/town centres where there are usually places licensed to serve alcohol. Everywhere else you can drink as you please as long as you don’t get too drunk.
Okay, so you’re going to ban targeted marketing and online advertising, right?
No?
Ah, so the plan is to introduce comprehensive support and counselling for stress and mental health issues in young people, meaning they won’t have to turn to these things to cope with their depressing, stressful lives?
No?
Ah, got you - you’re going to improve the individual lives and prospects of all citizens, creating a utopian nation, so they can each look forward to a healthy prosperous future and genuinely have nothing to worry about?
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