The legal drinking age is currently twenty-one. If we were to lower this age limit, the author states " young adults allowed to drink in controlled environments such as restaurants, taverns, pubs and official school and university functions. In these situations responsible drinking could be taught through role modeling and educational programs".

What is the age of consent for marriage? Who can and can not be married? And what types of marriage are there? This is explained in this article by enotes.

There is a mom in Arizona who wants to be the heaviest ever. She talks about how she is going about to accomplish this. And she talks about the health risks associated with doing this.

Where should learning take place? Home schooling is an alternative to public education. Children are place under a greater amount of pressure due to testing, having to learn the curriculum taught in a short amount of time, tests, when they start school and attendance in school. With home schooling most of the stress is erased.

What are the risks to smokers and non-smokers? How many people are affected? This article talks about the history of many surgeon general reports and answers these questions.

Nancy Lublin in this article talks about how youth younger than eighteen can work, drive, enlist or be tried as adults. In some parts of the world, younger teenagers already vote. Maybe the younger youth should be heard.

This article from the United Kingdom could easily have come from the United States. It talks about reasons why we should raise the age limit for driving a vehicle and why we should not raise the age limit. Then you are allowed to vote on how you feel at the bottom of the article.

Right now we have a choice when it comes to medical care. But if certain healthcare reforms and laws pass this may change. If we have a choice between certain types of treatments, a "triage system" may decide our fate in the future.

Kody Brown and his "wives" file a lawsuit in the state of Utah. They have named seven different claims and named the govenor of Utah as one of the defendants in the case. They state "they are just one of many plural families living in the state and just want to live their lives."

The legislature started to pass laws requiring people to use their seat belts. Each time new legislature came, there was a great number of people opposed and people for seat belt use. The legislature would give money to states that would enforce the seat belt laws.