The women's christian temperance union argued that laws concerning alcohol were nesessary to:

I believe the answer is: decrease social problems

Women's Christian Temperance Union argued that alcohol often resulted in destrutive behaviour that displayed by parents within a family. They see this as a threat to traditional and religious value, so abandoning the consumption of alcohol would be in society's best interest.

a punishment or the threat of punishment used to enforce conformity. enforcement of norms or shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations. social control. not everyone internalizes all of society's norms, and some people must be motivated by self-fulfillment.