So sad. This happens far too often. SMH 16 and 17 year old teen girls dead. 17 year old driver charged with intoxicated manslaughter. His life has been changed forever. 

And it just keeps happening. Idk what the answer is but we aren?t doing something right.
I watched an episode of Dateline yesterday where they took a group of teen girls whose parents had instructed and taught them about the dangers of drinking and driving. Yet when those same girls were put in a social situation with a guy who was the driver AND drunk off his butt, they got into the car anyway with him driving.

It seems like
Common sense. Where is their fear?? 

I have been so busy and there are so many things I want to respond to but Ireally wanted to respond to this one.

It seems like
Common sense. Where is their fear???
They don't have any because they have been cushioned all their lives and some are just slower than others.

Let me theorize and pontificate :)...

My cousins were butt-stupid compared to us and I think I know why. Cousins lived in the city, always indoors sitting on the couch. We on the other hand had many things to worry about all day such as:

If I don't pay attention when I spread the hay that one cow that thinks she's a horse will come tearing around the others and knock me down and if she steps on me something will get crushed because she is one big a** cow!

If I don't pay attention when we are out clearing brush I will inadvertently rouse a hornet's nest like my brother who got stung so many times we thought he wasn't going to make it.

If I go horsing around after I deliver those cows, Dad is going to bust my butt when I get back...literally :( and there is NO WAY he won't know before I even get back. (I was hurrying one time and some empty feedbags flew out of the truck that weren't even supposed to be there had I followed directions and he knew because a local cop call him and ratted on me and there I was sent right back out to go track them all down)

Some kids are stupid and letting them do what their siblings do because they have reached a certain age is dumb. One of my brothers just wasn't as detailed oriented as the others so he wasn't allowed to drive the truck and trailer as soon as the rest of us were; too much liability concerning the precious cattle.

So what it boils down to. Parents are going through the motions and not really parenting and providing supervised opportunities from when the kid is little to see how life (physics) work.

Parents are distracted accumulating crap and kids are being born into situations where the parents are not financially secure enough to devote as much time as need.

Thank you for allowing me to pontificate :) I am sure there are a billion more reasons these kids aren't acting responsibly. 

They're kids. Kids do dumb things. And a few die because of that. 

So what it boils down to. Parents are going through the motions and not really parenting and providing supervised opportunities from when the kid is little to see how life (physics) work.

Have you raised teenagers to young adults? 

My experience (including myself) is teenagers think they're bullet proof no matter what they're taught at home. Some are naturally risk takers- others you don't have to worry about, as much. It's always been this way, and it always will be. 

Have you raised teenagers to young adults?
Yes 

My experience (including myself) is teenagers think they're bullet proof no matter what they're taught at home.

Only if they haven't found out in small ways (before they really screw up) that they are not. 

Where is their fear

At eighteen, nineteen and their early twenties they feel bullet proof and immortal.

That's why they (males only) were being drafted prior to the end of the Vietnam War. 

At eighteen, nineteen and their early twenties they feel bullet proof and immortal.
Only some kids are like that. Others hate driving the DAY they start driving because they see how badly others drive and wonder WTH is wrong with them. 

That was my point about risk takers,and the other kids- 

That was my point about risk takers,and the other kids
I don't know how to do a "thumbs up" on here...I will do a smiley :) 

We need to rethink the current status quo regarding even letting a teen behind the wheel of a car, period.

I mean at 15 1/2 they are ready to get that permit! And we all fall in lock step bc it's what we do now so we don't have to be bothered driving them around. But what a price has been paid. Even tho time and time again, year in and year out, they die. They kill other people and themselves. 

National Underage Drinking Statistics

4,300 deaths annually are caused by underage drinking.
People aged 12 to 20 years old drink 11% of all alcohol consumed in U.S.
More than 90% of alcohol consumed is considered as binge drinking.
In 2010, there were 189,000 emergency room visits for injuries related to underage drinking.
1 in 6 teens binge drink (excessively consuming alcohol in a short time period).
Only 1 in 100 parents believe his or her child binge drinks.
Youth drinking is correlated to adult drinking ? children of parents who binge drink are 2x as likely to binge drink.
70% of young people have engaged in heavy drinking by ages 19 or 20.
Nearly 75% of 12th grade students, more than 66% of 10th grade students, and about 40% of 8th grade students have consumed alcohol in their lifetimes.
From ages 13 to 21, the percentage of people who report binge drinking increases from 1% to 50%.
Male drivers are roughly twice as likely as female drivers to have BACs of .08 or higher.
Unrestrained drivers 16 to 20 are over 3x as likely to be alcohol impaired than drivers of that age range who use seatbelts.
The 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that among high school students, during the 30 days prior to being surveyed,

33 percent drank alcohol.
18 percent participated in binge drinking.
8 percent drove after drinking.
20 percent rode with an intoxicated driver.
These numbers are startling, especially when you consider that teen car accidents are the number one cause of death for teens in the United States.

2017 Underage Drinking Statistics
Family and friends continue to be a leading source of alcohol for today?s youth.
57 percent of current underage drinkers reported family and friends as their source for the alcohol they consumed.
85 percent of 12th graders, 71 percent of 10th graders, and 53 percent of 8th graders say it would be ?fairly easy? or ?very easy? for them to get alcohol.
Disapproval of binge drinking continues to remain high among all three grade levels (85 percent of 8th graders; 81 percent of 10th graders; and 74 percent of 12th graders).
2012 Underage Drinking Statistics
When asked how easy it would be to get alcohol, most 8th, 10th, and 12th graders said "fairly easy" or "very easy."
11% of 8th graders reported drinking during the past 30 days, 3.6% to intoxication.
28% of 10th graders reported drinking during the past 30 days, 14.5% to intoxication.
42% of 12th graders reported drinking during the past 30 days, 28.1% to intoxication.


This is the takeaway: teen car accidents are the number one cause of death for teens in the United States. 

yet we focus on guns in the wrong hands. 

I do believe that this is a decades old problem with teenagers. But it seems to get worse as our society apoears to glamorize alcohol. Many (not all) parents send the message that having a good time MUST involve alcohol. Seriously? A lot of these parents happily serve alcohol to their underage kids. Why? I don?t understand this. And yes, I have raised children to adulthood. Such a sad situation.