It's illegal and very bad for the health. I guess it's safe to say I'm not for it.

It's appalling how common underage drinking is these days. It's not cool and should be reserved for the gangster movies. It also makes you smell like nail polish, kind of.

really its no different to when I was young ...many many years ago ... we did the same thing and 99.999% of us turned out just fine

I do believe the drinking age in the US is too high but I don't condone drinking for people under 18-19. There is good scientific evidence that young adults' brains are suceptible to long term effects from binge drinking.

I don't condone it, but I feel like a hypocrite telling people it's wrong, because, I, too, was drinking at a very young age. I try to explain that I don't want my young friends to make the same mistakes I did, and I add to that the statement that if they are ever in a position where they have been drinking, DO NOT get behind the wheel of a vehicle! I tell them to call me and I'll get them home safely.

Stop it before it starts because encouraging it is not a good thing to encourage amongst the youth. If they're going to do it it sure won't be because a responsible family member encouraged the behavior because it is disreputable of a parent to do so.

America has a high drinking age for a specific purpose. I teach in a country where the drinking age is 18. Regardless of one's birthday, one becomes a year older on January 1. That means that a high school class of twelfth graders can legally drink. Vietnam, where I live, is very protective of what young people do (young meaning unmarried). In America, one might not become an adult until the age of 18, but one can pretty much do what he or she wants at 16. I think the penalties should be strictly enforced. If parents allow their kids to drink in the privacy of their own home, that should be private and not discussed. And I was in the Army when the drinking age was RAISED from 18 to 21. The riffraff caused by drinking diminished by 85%. You can't compare the United States with other countries.

Listen i am 19 now , i live in my own apartment, from my sophmore year in high school i used to get serve me and my buddies used to go to bars and pound cases upon cases of brew in the great city of Pittsburgh we would go to all you can drink for STiller games and drink everything from Lions head to IC light to Heineken I am originialy from Europe.. I used to go to the store at age of 9 and buy my dad a bottle of wine, a beer , when he was to lazy. None of my buddies over there find drinkin an escape to life. When i go there , i drink about 50 percent less than i do here. It is legal, and it is not appealing. Its part of life, since i was 16 and i would go to familly dinners i was put a shto of Vodka and glass of home made wine in front of me , its part of life , part of the culture You never hear of DUI's , deaths , violence, domestic abuse People grow up and don't even imagine life any other way. When iwas 16 and i would go back all i would wanna do is stay at bars all day and night because it felt like i escaped to freedom, and none of my buddies there udnerstood me.. to them, it was nothing. Underage drinking is unexplainable to me in the United States.

I don't understand why anyone wants to do something that makes them look and act like a fool whether they're underage or over 21!!

There's nothing wrong with it. An 18-year-old certainly shouldn't be considered "underage." While it's obvious that young children shouldn't be permitted to drink, the time and manner by which a teenager learns to drink should be between him and his family.