Choosing The Right Of Passage For Teenagers

An example of this instance happened to my friend from another city last year. After her school's prom ended, she and her date were waiting on the steps of the school to be picked up by their parents. However, her city also has a 10 pm curfew, and my friend and her date ended up being punished for being out "so late." These kids were just waiting for a ride from their parents, not one in the back of a police car. If a law has not served its purpose in maintaining order within the community and making people's lives easier, then it has failed. The purpose of this curfew is to keep teens out of trouble, but it fails to acknowledge the basic fact that not all teens are looking for trouble when they are out late at night, and that many of them have extenuating circumstances requiring them to be out, such as a job. Many times, it also fails to make exceptions for teens on the streets due to situations not in their control, and instead opts to slap the same charges on any young person out after curfew no matter what. Previous instances illustrating the failure of a curfew to actually help teens, and foreseeable instances of its failure in the future, have lead me to my current position

It is hard for law enforcement to enforce curfews and curfew violations are not taken seriously. Juvenile curfews will not stop young people who are intent on committing crime, in part, because the penalties for a curfew violation are not that serious (O 'Neil). There are also limited police officers to help with the enforcement of curfews. Because of the curfews, it takes the police away from more serious crime that are happening in cities across the United States. The enforcement of juvenile curfews is hard to put into effect, and there are limited police officers to enforce these curfews, which are often not even taken seriously.

Curfew is a set time which teenagers will have to schedule their activities around. Generally, this curfew doesn’t change and helps your teen to understand boundaries. It is a wonderful idea for teens to have curfews because it teaches them to be responsible and also considerate of other people around them. As teenagers, it is natural for adolescents to feel like their freedoms are being taken away and that their parents don’t know what is best. However, curfew is put in place for the direct opposite, which is keeping teenagers out of trouble. Curfew teaches teenagers time management, it could lower the crime rate in local areas, and it could give teenagers an overall better relationship with their parents. Because of these reasons, I

Although having a curfew for it to be illegal for teenagers to be on the streets after ten o’clock p.m. on weekdays or after midnight on weekends would be beneficial in exceptional and deficient ways, many citizens will disagree with having a curfew. The eminently important reason Dierks, Arkansas, should have a teenage curfew is for the security of the teenagers. Another reason is for the parent to have control over their child, instead of their child being undisciplined. On the other hand, having a curfew could hinder maturity.

Is very good that the State wants to care for minors, establishing curfew, but I think that there are more ways to care for them. they can be warn parents of the dangers of the night, and give guidance on the upbringing of a minor, but they cannot force them to do things they are not agree with, since in the end the parent is who decides to give permission or not, because is the one in

My opinion is that curfew was set to protect minors but, there are plenty of reason why a minor would be out passed curfew and there should be system where some minors can exempt the law like having parental permission.

A city curfew just will make teenagers want to stay out even longer. If a city decides to make a curfew that says teenagers cannot stay out later than ten on weekdays and twelve on weekends will just make them have to sneak out and be breaking the law while they are at it! So if you are the city council I have one question for you, would you rather let the teenagers stay out as long as their parents let them or make them just break the law?

Since they we are young we need to follow responsibility. If you let us have a later curfew it shows us that the city council has confidence in us. Almost everyone knows that if we break this confidence then it will take a very long time for them to have confidence in us. They don't want that to happen.

In today’s society, many people fear that if teens are out late they are participating in mischief or that they are more likely to be involved in criminal activity. Many feel that by creating a city wide curfew for teens crime would be reduced. However, in reality, most crimes are committed during the day by adult offenders, not by individuals under the age of 18. A curfew for teens would not be the right way to go.

First and foremost, city council should make staying out late for teenagers illegal because of danger. If city council makes this illegal, it could prevent some of the kidnapping, use of drugs, or killings. Most things happen late at night because people are less seen, if teenagers are made to be home at a curfew, fewer of these dangers will occur to our town’s teenagers.

Many teenagers have a set time they have to be home by their parents. Usually teenagers must be home from dates and nights out with friends by anywhere from 10 o’clock at night to 2 o’clock in the morning. Each parent has extremely different curfews set for their children, based on the individual level of responsibility and trust levels. Some local government decides to set their own curfews, to keep teens off the streets at night and out of trouble. Many people argue whether this actually solves anything, or is even legal to do, since it is taking away a piece of teenager’s freedom. Although there are many good and bad points to enforcing curfews, they should be less enforced because they do not necessarily keep teens out of trouble,

Although the city council is considering a curfew that would make it illegal for teenagers to be out on the streets after 10 p.m. on weekdays or after midnight on weekends. Even though the curfew will keep teenagers in but what if there was an emergency. It is also against the bill of rights we should not all be punished for what other people do it's not everyone's fault. We should talk to the city council about watching the neighborhoods for thieves and vandalizers. Everyone would be able to go grocery shopping or if they have to go to the hospital. If we had curfew it would make us feel like we are trapped and we can't go outside many parents or guardians don't get off work tell midnight or later.

Teen specific laws are unnecessary, they cause an abundance of new and unnecessary problems. An example of unnecessary laws would be curfew laws. Curfew laws don’t do anything but create more complications. According to the article, “Youth Curfews Popular with American Cities but Effectiveness and Legality Are Questioned,” by USA editor, Tony Favro, “Juvenile arrests increase significantly in most cities with curfews.” Do people really want to fix one itsy bitsy problem even if it means a bunch more problems will appear? Although these laws were originally created to benefit the society as a whole, one may never know how a teen would respond to the laws. Moreover, these unnecessary laws may cause teens to act out. According to Dr. Epstein, “Infantilization, or treating teens as if they

Having a teenage curfew is ineffective and useless. Many people argue that the curfews are necessary because it will keep young people out of trouble. They also say that teenagers are more likely to get in trouble late than they would during daylight. Teens are looked at as the age group that causes the most trouble, and society targets them when it comes to matter for crime, however many people believe that teens are responsible for a large percentage of crimes and that having a curfew in effect will help lower crime rates. I disagree with this because I don't think teenagers should be forced to follow a ridged time schedule because of a curfew.

Just because they have a curfew it doesn’t mean that they aren’t going to get in trouble. It may limit the things they do. Which in turn limits the trouble they get in, but it doesn’t stop them from doing things to get them in trouble. (Wylie Tanton said on April 11, 2012 “I personally think teens shouldn't have a curfew because whether or not they have curfew teens still get themselves into trouble, not only during the night. http://www.collegenet.com/elect/app/app?service=external/Forum&sp=42891)