Underage drinking

THE problem of underage drinking in Papua New Guinea has increased over the years and has affected many students.
As a result of peer pressure, children as young as 10 are drinking and have been caught buying alcohol illegally.
Some are making homebrews.
I am raising this serious issue as a child and a student to inform parents that peer pressure causes these children to drink, get into fights, steal and – even worse – get locked up by the police or end up in the hospital injured.
As a student I fear that peer pressure is a major cause of underage drinking, so I strongly suggest that parents educate and control their children and know what their children are doing all the time.

Marie-Grace Holland
POMIS