My 22-year-old drinks like a pharmaceutical sales rep testing the limits of her first expense account. She has never met an $18 Hugo Spritz she didn't want another round of.
Alcohol is poison but it's a poison whose effects are generally pleasing, at least in the short run. Humans love to drink, and some of those humans may be your children.
It will test your patience, your capacity for self-censorship and your gag reflex. It will also make you examine your own relationship to alcohol.
We'd probably be smart, as a society, to take a more considered approach toward our ritualistic embrace of drinking at the onset of adulthood.
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