According to the article, “Tippling Teens”, high school students between the ages of 16-21 drink alcohol not because of “the cheap taste of Bud Light” beer, and the “buzz” they get from drinking it. “All the teen wants to do is get drunk.” This outburst of activity among high school students has caused binge drinking to become increasingly high.

Binge drinking, also known as an outburst of activity, is related to the type of environment the teen might be in that causes them to consume large amounts of alcohol. Teens who suffer from alcoholism usually have easy access to the alcohol consumed; “they either have friends who are willing to buy it for them, a parent who drinks daily, or have fake identification.”

Another reason why teens binge drink is because their friends are doing it so they feel that drinking with them is the cool thing to do.

In reference to the Today Magazine, teen alcoholism is due to the need to feel wanted. Seen tend to feel like the need friends, or popular people around them to fell wanted or recognized. The thing about most of these situations is that the parent does not become aware of the situation until it is too late for them to correct it. There are many sign of seeing alcoholism or other forms of drugs; “the user tends to break friendly relationship with friend that are not drinking, they tend to do less activities with the family, the hang out more frequently with the people that are doing the same thing that they are, and more.” But the major then that happens with the child is there attitude, “the attitude of the child tends to change causing fights among the family and others.”
Once the parent find out about their child’s binge drinking, they tend to put an automatic stop to the situation. Yes, the child might stop drinking, for the time being. Usually they say, “I promise to do better in the future,” just give me another chance.” So what does the parent do, they trust them and most always the child goes back to doing the same outburst of activity they were doing the first time they got caught and the majority of the time the child does even more drinking than before

In many cases the teen might feel “pressure from family through the lectures of right and wrong, the nagging of the family, etc. In cases like these the child already knows everything that you might be telling them and it becomes irritating and makes you stress right back out.”

SOURCE:
Penny Lockwood Ehrenkranz. "Tippling teens: Is there an underage drinking epidemic?" Expanded Academic Index. March, 2003. July 17, 2003.h 2003.