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Readers Talk about How to Stop Underage Drinking Several readers asked about how to contact the CT Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking. Here is the contact information: Connecticut Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking Dear Beth: I believe the greatest impact to underage drinking needs to come from
two places.
The problem needs to be stopped where it starts: with the minor. Don't feel sorry for them (minors). They are the ones breaking the law and they know it. When they do, they should have to pay the price, just like they will when they are adults. *** Dear Beth: My first concern is that young people aren't being adequately taught the difference between right and wrong. What sort of truth is being taught? Where is the yardstick for morality? If ethics continue to be taught as situational, then by definition there is only confusion. The basis shifts with the wind. With no fixed basis for concepts of right and wrong, much less the very existence of these concepts, bright young people quickly realize what they are being taught is meaningless. Secondly, secular and government schools have eliminated God from their environs. What can we expect when religion is forbidden? People are taught the proposition that all of reality is accidental. If we are nothing more than a collection of chemical reactions, then even the words I am using have no meaning. We become captives of our own vain philosophy. *** Dear Beth: I'm going to tell you what I would like to do, even though I know I can't do it. As a father of four children I have been around the block a few times and know some of the problems of raising teenagers. Today in our fine city we have a big drug problem. This problem effects many a fine family. You can raise your children in a good way by keeping them busy in scouts, church and sports. Talk to them about alcohol and drugs and what it will do to them. However, many young people still turn to drugs. The bad thing is that it's just not beer or pot anymore; it's crack and heroin. What I would like to do is put an ad in the paper telling all the dealers: "If you sell drugs to one of my grandchildren, I will hunt you down and blow your head off." However, a statement like that would put me in jail, and most of the dealers don't read the paper anyway. So it wouldn't do any good. I'm sure many of the dads and granddads out there feel the same way I do, but in their hearts they know this would be breaking the law. A good person doesn't break the law. I just hate to see the young people of our fine town harming themselves and their loved ones. It's time for people to stop turning their heads away from these problems and help the police stop the dealers who are selling "death" to our teenagers. If a parent finds alcohol or drugs in their child's room or book bag, confront the child and find out where he or she got it. Then inform the police. I don't want my grandchildren living in a town with alcohol and drug problems, but I think this problem exists in all towns. Let's drive the dealers out and put them in jail! *** LINKS: ***
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