Women Driving Under The Influence is on the Rise
In the United States more women are drunk driving then ever before, and with kids in the car.
Women may be drinking more because of pressures stemming from both work and home. Men still have more DUI cases than women, but women are catching up. They seem to be more careless when getting behind the wheel of a car.
According to Chris Cochran of the California Office of Traffic Safety, “Younger women feel more empowered, more equal to men, and have beginning to exhibit the same uninhibited behaviors as men.”
In 2007, nationwide, women arrested for DUI was 28.8 percent higher than in 1998. The National Highway Safety Administration reported that in 2007 there were 250 kids killed in DUI related crashes, “We realized for the last two to three years, the pattern of more female drivers, particularly mothers with kids in their cars, getting arrested for drunk driving,” said Tom Meier
“Our society has taught us that women have an extra burden to be the perfect mothers and perfect wives and perfect daughters and perfect everything,” said Dr Petros Levounis, director of the Addiction Institute of New York at St Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, “They tend to go to great lengths to keep everything intact from an external viewpoint while internally, they are in ruins.”
With the current economic problems on families, and men losing their incomes, women are feeling the burden.
Women driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs are going to be targeted when the Transportation Department’s annual crackdown happens this month.
Experts: Women Drink More, DUIs Rise, 10news.com, August 7,2009
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