This is hilarious…

...but it actually presents a pretty good underlying point.  Why is college-age drinking so bad in this country?  Because often the first opportunity kids have to drink is when they arrive at college.  Most of them have next to no experience with alcohol before being thrust out onto their own, and even with those that do it’s usually limited to furtive house parties and drunken tailgaters out in the middle of forests or cow pastures.

I am firmly convinced that were parents around the country allowed to host parties with alcohol for their children, and were they allowed to bring the kids with them on occasional social trips out to the bar, we’d see the college-age drinking problem all but cease to exist.

Would there still be a few problems?  Sure, but not nearly what we’re seeing now.  And if you don’t believe me, look to Europe.  Kids are exposed to alcohol there at a much younger age, and they don’t have near the college-aged party problems we do.

Besides, it’s more than a little absurd to let kids drive, vote, enter into contracts, fight in the military, work jobs and get credit cards when they’re 18 (or younger) but we don’t let them legally have a beer with mom and dad until they’re 21.