Teen Club in Roskilde arrange parties for teenagers aged between 13 and 16. It is closed parties for members only and it makes it a safe party enviroment for teenagers when they enter the party environment.
Safe party environment are wanted as the ordinary streets become more and more dangerous to walk on. If you ask persons at our criminal courts you will learn that youth not drinking alcohol are taking the seats as those who are charged for crimes.
For more information here are some of the facebook pages they promote their parties on:
- Teen Club I HASLEV (PRØVE FEST I HASLEV) (Facebook)
- TEEN CLUB (ROSKILDE) (Facebook)
Resently the Lansing State Journal published an article which told of the dangers of legislation. The statement made is that drinking laws create more dangers for our youth.
Can it be correct?
Yes, it can be confirmed by lesson learned in Denmark too. We have seen an increased drug use and vandalism around the cities in Denmark due to the local authorities trying to sideline alcohol consumption among the youth. In some cities they even test the teenagers for alcohol before they enter parties and even one beer is enough to be sent home.
The result is groups of teenagers meeting unknown places in the nature. They tend to vandalize and accept even younger children which has not been confirmed to the Christian belief and therefore not ready to drink alcohol. Children down to around 8 and 12 has been seen drinking and they should not be introduced to alcohol before their parents do it as part as the confirmation ritual.
Without adult acceptance and guidance alcohol can be dangerous. The adults need to let the teenagers gather and monitor the events to they can intervene if something goes out of hand.
Denmark needs to remove the age limit on common alcohol products. The research has shown that alcohol is of no danger to teenagers as long as the percentage is below 16.5.
References:
Couger: Drinking laws actually create more dangers, Blog on Lansing State Journal, August 5, 2010
Strandfester med fulde børn ned til 12 år, by Anna C. Møhl, Sjællandske Tidende, July 3, 2010
Recent news has shown that a larger number of Danes are lonely and isolated. It is the result of a decade with increased legislation against the Danish custom of learning about the lives of other citizens by sitting down with and enjoying a beer or two together.
Up to the 1970′s it was normal for co-workers to drink beers on the job. Whenever you had a conflict in the work place it was custom to see a blue wave of workers stand in front of our parliament joined together for a common course.
Denmark has no open canister law, but still the police have used a more general law to prohibit persons to walk in certain parts of the city if they appeared poor or drank in the public. Most known in the public is the police trying to help the politicians turning a part of Copenhagen called Vesterbro which was once a neighborhood for the working class and people on social benefits into a upper-class environment.
But also young people are lonely and the intro arrangement for young students at our universities is under attack by groups in our society controlled by Westboro Baptist Church alike members. The intro arrangements known as “rus-ture” have been known for their moderate partying and some alcohol consumption. Now they are trying to limit the alcohol intake and the result is that fewer Danish native students attend them. They have become a happening for foreign students or Danes with other non-native origins.
Another problem is that fewer students take gap years than before. It is something our government has worked to achieve for some years. Too many took a year off as exchange students and brought back unwanted cultural ideas which polluted our culture, so it had to be stopped or at least reduced. The high school graduates enter the more adult environment at the universities directly from the high schools. If they are scared off the intro arrangement because the social aspect is gone, then they are in higher risk of dropping out.
Lonelyness is a serious issue, which we need to deal with. Only by returning to our old ways we can maintain the social aspect of being student and create tax-paying productive citizens without the emotional problems lonelyness creates.
References:
Danskere er plaget af ensomhed, Denmarks Radio, August 22, 2010
Kropslege afløser druk på rusturen, by Christian Bartels, Politiken, August 9, 2010
Unge studerende vækker bekymring, by Charlotte Holst, Metroexpress, August 20, 2010
Unfortunately summer time also means young people visiting Denmark rather unprepared to deal with our advanced culture. Just this week two young adults from other nordic countries were found in a very drunken state.
To unge kvinder fundet stangstive på gaden, Henrik Reintoft, Jydske Vestkysten, July 30 – 2010
As hosts we have a very important task.
We have to keep our guests safe and not take advantage of them.
Some might be tempted to observe them and even motivate them to be so drunk that they cannot take care of themselves, but it is poor judgment. They had not trained with alcohol as our young adults do, so they cannot like we do.
It is not their fault that they come from a less developed culture. Take care of our guest and transport them safe back home when possible,
