Teen Curfews: A National Debate

Do curfews keep teenagers out of trouble? This topic has always been on the cover page of today's newspaper headlines and a hot topic that has been discussed by every family. What are curfews like? A curfew is a time frame given by an authority like a parent or the government to teenagers below 18 to be home before a certain period of time. So, ask yourself, do you think that by implementing curfews into a teenager’s life, he or she would keep out of trouble. Our group has discussed and came to an agreement that curfews really do help teenagers keep out of trouble. Firstly, curfews help teenagers to stay

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.

Curfews are not in effect everywhere and not everyone follows them, whether it is intentionally or unintentionally. Sometimes, curfews that are in effect are not followed intentionally, as previously discussed, or unintentionally. Many times some people don’t even know what the curfews are in set cities; if the city has a curfew set at all. Dallas, Texas has recently set a curfew for teens ages 17 and under. The teens must be inside by 11 o’clock on weekdays and midnight on weekends (Rosado, and Manly). Agreeing to this, Sutphen and Ford argued that different curfews throughout the United States are unreasonable. If teenagers were used to a curfew of midnight, adjusting to a curfew

Some small town cites, neighborhoods, or even across the United States people want something to change and that is young peoples curfew's. City council should not adopt a 10 P.M. curfew and a midnight weekend curfew for teenagers because: Young people need to wake up early to get to school, and teens would still not go go to bed early. While some people may agree to a curfew change they are wrong because. Other young people can use their curfew as an excuse to missing school work or being late to class, they can also be out late at nigh and be at risk of being killed by drivers under the influence of alcohol or illegal substances. Teenagers often have excuses because. They might not have school work with them or it might not

Many people don’t care about the law as everyone can look around their community and see. Drugs are illegal in most states yet people still deal, make, and do drugs, do you really think a curfew will stop them and crime. Justin Harrison also agrees with this theory he says, “Clearing streets isn’t going to stop somebody who’s intent on breaking into a house or stealing a car… curfews like they may in fact be increasing crime,” (Berg). A curfew isn’t going to stop thugs from doing what they want, this new curfew is probably making more people rebel. “…juvenile crime rates in such cities as San Francisco actually went down when curfews were abolished,” (Irvine). This is proof how enforcing curfews don’t actually cut down crime like many people think it will. “Youth curfews has found little evidence that they are an effective crime deterrent and has suggested that such restrictions may exacerbate racial profiling and civil rights violations,” (Weigel). These curfews aren’t in fact doing anything to help communities but actually going against peoples’ rights and accusing teens of things. A new curfew isn’t going to really stop anyone from doing what they want and when they

In the magazine opinion piece “Should Communities Set Teen Curfews?” the author, Bey argues that curfews is necessary. Bey agrees when she writes, “Too many of today’s parents just don't want to be responsible for their children” (468). Basically, the author is saying when the children want to be ready for the school in the morning parents don't do anything just sleep because they don't want to be responsible for their children. I agree that parents don't want to be responsible for their children because parents think that children are wasting their time. In addition, the author states, “A parent dropped a 12-year-old child off in downtown Orlando at 8 o’clock one

Curfews are good for teens because they keep teens out of trouble. Without curfews our generation of teenagers would be a bunch of rebellious, disobedient, and mutinous kids on the street. “Curfews would provide communities with a tool to help them combat juvenile crime,”(Uyttebrouck). A clinical psychologist in California named Dr. David Swanson says curfews keep kids safe and asked, “what good comes for a kid outside of their home after 11:00 p.m.?” He then answered, “there's nothing out there for

Also, with that law, parents will probably follow the time of that law. This means that teens cannot try and negotiate a time that is fair. If a teen believes that the curfew time is not fair and wants hangout with friends or go to a party, they will most likely sneak out. The point of the curfew is to keep people safe and make sure they do not get in trouble, but if a teenager is going to sneak out anyway, what's the point. A curfew law is a good idea on paper for parents who worry about there children, but there is no true way to make sure they are safe without taking away there freedoms, and that is what a Government forced curfew would do. Not all teenagers are bad and stay out past curfew just to party and hangout with friends, sometimes teens need to stay out late. High school students have extra curricular activities they do after school. I know from personal experiences that sometimes you can get home from a sporting event after a scheduled curfew. That is one of the first things i was

Both authors give many reasons why they are for or against curfews. Barbara bey believes that curfews are good because keep them safe and better to them to be in the home before 11:00 pm, while the other author insists that curfews are bad because the teenagers want to be after 11:00 pm outside the home because they going to drink and smoke and that's dangers to them. I agree that the curfews are good for the teenagers because so many people believe the teen going to do the bad thing. The United State they should do curfews in the future before 11:00 pm that helps the teenagers make them safe and are not dangerous for them.

Do curfews really work? How can we accurately measure their impact? The curfew reduces the accident and help the parents to control their children. Barbara bey say that they curfew help the parents to take care if their children. But the Aclu’s against the curfew and say it doesn’t work and not important to keep the teenagers safe.

According to Dela Vega (2011), curfew is a law passed by a local or state government that confined certain people from being in public places at specified times of the day. Many cities and towns have a curfew law in place to prevent teenagers from being out at certain times. Any minors grasp out after curfew can face a fine or even jail time, are conditional on upon the specific laws of the place. The utilized of curfews for teenagers can help to safeguard helpless children for not all parents or guardians is accountable and inescapable to their children suffer. Government should secure that such abandoned children are returned home safely and that their parents are made to face up to their task, as curfew defined above by Dela Vega we can say now that the main reason for implementing such law is to protect the children or minors from

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.

Curfews give teens the chance to change and it works because they have less time out to cause the trouble and get Pregnant do vandalism, go stealing take drugs, smoke Cigarettes, and have under age sex get involved

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” Many people do not live your average nine to five life. A large majority of the people who have night jobs are teens. Teens trying to make a better life for themselves. Yet the people of the city council wish to set a boundary on the dreams of many teens by enforcing a 10pm curfew. All because some ignorant teens decided to do something dumb, resulting the city council giving all teens a 10pm curfew. A curfew that may limit the growth of many. This is not fair to all the good teens; the ones who wish to do something with there life. Curfews generally don't work, because the disobedient children they are made for can commit any crime during the day that they can at night. Some people my say that an early curfew will give students more time to do school work. If a student does not get there work done at school then they are not going to do it at home when they could be out with there friends.