Girl drunks � 50% increase in arrests for drunkenness in five years

[AB Asks]

Women arrested for being drunk and disorderly has gone up by 50% in the last five years. It is being blamed on the 24 hour drinking laws. Do you think the laddette loutish binge drinking women that roam town centres at night are just having some fun like men have done for years? Or is this more serious, with people spending more money than they can afford on getting too drunk and endangering their future health?

[andy-hughes]

I have banged on about this at lengh every time it comes up on the AB.

The situation we have in our country now, is that young people equate being seriously poisoned by alcohol (call it 'slaughtered', trolleyed', 'hammered' what ever - alcohol poisoning is what it is) with having a 'good time'.

The culture in the UK is utterly alien to Europeans, who enjoy a glass of wine with dinner, and see no mystery or appeal in simply drunking to get drunk - that peculiar notion belongs to the British.

The Government employed some spectaculrarly crass thinking that equated twenty-four hour drinking with a 'cafe' society - which was always doomed to fail.

The factors of cheap supermarket alcohol and underage drinking are a bag part of the situation, but we seriously need to educate our children that being poisoned by drugs is really not the way to have an enjoyable evening.

The sooner we can get away from the notion that drunkeness is a measure of enjoyment, the sooner we can address the raft of antgi-social, violent and criminal behaviour that follows along behind it.

Education is the clue - and we all know that the government, like all governments, would rather spend its money forcing democracy on other nations by miliary means, than educating its children to be nice to ech other.

[Octavius]

I was drinking from about the age of 14 or 15, as were probably most kids of that age & above. However, we knew our boundaries and were well aware that the police and parents were able to come down on us like a ton of bricks if we stepped out of line.

Perhaps the education element has gone awry, but any education I received on this (moderation) was from my mum and dad. I guess mums and dads [and indeed the police] have less influence over their children�s behaviour these days. Once again, in my mind at least, its the slippery shoulders of parental responsibility.

[RevFunk]

You get nicked for drunk and disorderly, abusing police, fighting whatever.

�1000 fine and a record instead of an 80 quid fine or released without charge.

[Lonnie]

Seeing a group of young women drinking to excess, looking for 'punch ups', swearing, It seems to me, that they want to outlad the lads, makes me sick., and thats not condoning the lads behaviour.

In the end, the people you have to blame, is their parents, for not instilling in them manners, respect, and the proper way to behave.

I put this post up almost two years ago, and rightly or wrongly, got a real slating from some of the replyees.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Body-and-Soul/Q uestion327548.html

[zbearspirit]

Sorry to lower the tone but my wifes friend's niece has recently died through what was described as 'drinking herself to death'. She was only thirty three. What a waste.
What can you say.

[Lonnie]

Hi zbearspirit,

I'm really sorry to hear that, obviously thats an extreme case, and I feel for the family, but she wasn't a youngster, so quite possibly she had other underlying problems, and turned to drink for comfort, then couldn't control it.

[gorgeousgeorge]

Are all of these arrests necessary......... i have seen many that aren't.