We teach our kids to read and write -we also need to teach them to drink. Responsible parents should let their kids have a few beer before they are 18 or 19. Let them have friends over and let them drink their faces off if they want to - but the parents should be upstairs to ensure the night ends well. This way, young men, and women don't go off to university, or the local park, and get so drunk they get into sexual situations they don't wish to be in or even worse, die from alcohol poisoning. I am refraining from calling these situations rape since all parties are drunk and not in control. If a man or woman gets drunk and gets into a car accident - we hold them equally responsible -why are these situations so different. Not all men are preditors - some are just drunk as well.