Families

It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; engaging in risky behavior is a rite of passage in our culture no less than in most others. Danger has always held a certain allure. That, in large part, is why so many teenagers drive too fast and drink too much and take too many drugs, why it has always been so easy for nations to recruit young men to go to war. It can be argued that youthful derring-do is in fact evolutionarily adaptive, a behavior encoded in our genes. McCandless, in his fashion, merely took risk-taking to its logical extreme" ( Krakauer 182).

In my family we have a strict no drinking or drug usage until you're 21 which is the law, but in some case(other families)  they don't mind if their kids go out and drink on Halloween night or after the senior football game. if I were to come home with alcohol on my breath I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be here today.  My mother grew up the same way but in her case her mother was an alcoholic so she saw firsthand what alcohol does to you.  She used to tell me stories of how her mom would get so drunk they had to cancel her birthday parties, or in some cases she would come home and find her lying on the kitchen floor passed out but her dad would say " it's OK mommy's taking a nap" and everything will be okay.  So in my family the extremities only go to having hot sauce on your burrito.