This is my point about transient periods. What makes us believe that this trend is more than social adjustment to major change? That as a society we don’t have

This is my point about transient periods. What makes us believe that this trend is more than social adjustment to major change? That as a society we don’t have good social coping mechanisms for the new modes of communication and that over time we will adjust as we adjusted to all other disruptive changes? I don’t think children are, by and large, heavy drinkers regardless. These laws are more rooted in prohibition and Puritanism than science. Society prior to age laws didn’t collapse, and alcohol was available to children for at least ten thousand of years. In fact America generally has significantly worse problems with destructive alcoholism than the rest of the world, where the relationship with alcohol isn’t as obsessively restrictive.