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About Us
Lowering Drinking Age Impacts Fetal Health
The legal drinking age is an ongoing debate as proponents of lowering the age continue to argue for its benefits. According to a new University of Georgia study, lowering the drinking age offers additional risks that may not have been considered before. In a recent Science Daily release, the results of this study suggest that lowering the drinking age increases unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people.
“Our findings suggest that a lower drinking age increases risky sexual behavior among young people, and that leads to more unplanned pregnancies that result in premature birth and low birth weight,” said study author Angela Fertig, assistant professor in the UGA College of Public Health, in the Science Daily piece. “The take-home message is that when it’s easier for young people to get alcohol, birth outcomes are worse.”
The consensus among researchers on this project was that a higher drinking age actually reduces fatal car crashes and alcohol consumption among young adults. At the same time, there is little data that measures the impact of drinking age laws on infant health. Researchers determined that a drinking age of 18:
- Increases by 21 percent the prenatal alcohol consumption among 18- to 20-year-old women;
- Increases the number of births to 18- to 20-year-olds as much as 4.6 percent in white women and 3.9 percent in 18- to 20-year-old African-American women;
- Increases the likelihood by 6 percent that a women under age 21 will have a low-birth weight baby by 6 percent;
- Increases the likelihood of premature birth in white women under 18 by 5 percent and by 7 percent for African-American women in the same age range.
According to the team’s analysis, the negative birth outcomes associated with a lower drinking age are not the direct result of prenatal alcohol consumption on the health of the fetus. It is instead the result of more unplanned pregnancies, which have been proven to be associated with poorer infant health outcomes.