They are considered Adults; they have all the right and privileges of adults. They pay taxes, can be drafted into the army to be sent off to die in war, pay taxes that help run the country, the vote, get married, they are eighteen years old. However the right to consume or buy alcohol till the age of twenty-one is denied. In 1984 one of the rights of the eight teen year old adult was seized from them. The right to consume or buy alcohol until the age of twenty-one. Congress believed that this move would lower the number of fatal teen drunk driving accidents even thought the number of accidents was already on the decline.
" In the 1978 Nation study of adolescent drinking behavior found that 10th-12th graders in states with a lower
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