Then there was DAMM. Drunks Against Mad Mothers. It had a following but just never got the legislative support.....And many states agreed. Then, MAAD (women) happened, among other things.
Why did states who'd previously allowed adults to drink at 18 roll back their laws and raise the age to 21?
States that had dropped the drinking age to 18 (or 19/20) in the early 1970s raised it again because the experiment produced a measurable jump in alcohol-related traffic deaths among 18- to 20-year-olds, created dangerous “blood borders” between neighboring states, and then ran into a federal funding hammer.
After the 26th Amendment lowered the voting age to 18 in 1971, roughly 29–30 states followed the “old enough to fight and vote, old enough to drink” logic and cut their minimum legal drinking age. Studies done in the mid-to-late 1970s quickly showed the downside: states that lowered the age saw 10–20 percent (sometimes higher) increases in nighttime and alcohol-involved crashes among the newly legal young drivers.
The patchwork of ages also produced “blood borders.” Teenagers from a 21-year-old state would drive into a neighboring 18-year-old state, drink legally, and drive home intoxicated. High-profile fatal crashes along those corridors generated public outrage.
A few states began reversing course on their own in the late 1970s (Michigan, for example, went back to 21 in 1978). Mothers Against Drunk Driving, founded in 1980 after Candy Lightner’s 13-year-old daughter was killed by a drunk driver, turned the issue into a national campaign. Combined with data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and a Presidential Commission on Drunk Driving, the political pressure reached Congress.
The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984, signed by President Reagan, did not set a federal drinking age. It simply withheld 10 percent of a state’s federal highway funds if that state still allowed purchase or public possession under 21. The Supreme Court upheld the tactic in South Dakota v. Dole (1987). Every state complied by 1988.
NHTSA later estimated the uniform 21-year-old age saved hundreds of lives per year among 18- to 20-year-olds. Whether every last life saved is attributable solely to the federal law is still debated by some economists, but the combination of crash data, border-hopping deaths, organized advocacy, and the threat of lost highway money is why the states that had gone to 18 went back to 21.
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At farms.
I think he is referring to 16 year olds getting their license.
LOL Seriously?
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Yes, on private property, off the public roads.
In some states that is correct. Used to be nationwide.
Yes.
"Children on private family farms frequently begin learning to drive pickup trucks, tractors, and utility vehicles between the ages of 5 and 9 to help with daily chores like hauling hay."
No lol! Just an attempt a humor!
You had me scared for a minute.
When I was a 19 year old kid I was in college and I was playing a game called rugby. My college was a stone's throw from Canada so the drinking age up in Canada at the time was 19. The older men in bars did not like kids in there I remember.
@T. A. Gardner does not like clowns he's terrified of them. What he likes to sexualize are Japanese depictions of cartoon women. And I would never accuse anyone of macking on underage women but boy they sure look pretty young in that avatar.
You still haven't pointed to the spot on the doll where the mean drag queen touched you!
I know they'll let anyone into Buffalo Wild wings!
A sex clown is someone who's really bad at it.
There are those who feel that especially in the case of women it objectifies them.
You really seem to have a hard on for drag queen.
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just answer.
WinterBorn
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And they have a point. But then, women have been (and are) objectified all the time.
But many women and their daughters feel it is a worthwhile thing.