The only exception to this curfew law is work. School doesn't count. I'm aware that some teenagers make stupid decisions, but restricting them doesn't make them more mature.
It's not designed to make them more mature, it's to protect them from themselves ... and, the rest of ta boot.
If you don't expose them to things, then they won't know how to react properly when they have no restrictions.
I fail to see the valuable life lesson that is learned by allowing a group of teenagers to ride in a car together and how preventing that will somehow cause harm to their development later in life.
I don't feel as if I'd do anything irresponsible if I was allowed to be out past 10.
Maybe YOU wouldn't, but far too many kids your age do. The statistics tend to show that kids out after curfew are astronomically more likely to be involved in deviant activity either as a victim or a suspect.
You're lucky ... my parents did not care what the city's curfew was, I had to be in when THEY wanted me in and that tended to be a lot earlier than what the city said (in fact, I don't even recall what the city curfew was, but I think it was 10 PM ... back in the 60s and 70s ... my parents wanted me in by 7 PM on school nights, and 9 PM on weekends, even if ... )
That law's not going to be followable either, I go places past 10.
Good for you. But, the law gives the police the license to act on such suspicious activity that might attract their attention. Their not likely to carte that you're going to a theater or a friend's house, but if they come upon a group hanging in the park drinking, this gives them a great tool to use in addressing such things.
The reason that drivers of those ages are 5x more likely to be involved in a crash of that degree is because it's the first time they're allowed to be out at that time.
Nope. Not even close. When you get a little older, perhaps you can study the research on collisions and underage drivers. That stat is for ALL serious injury and fatal collisions, not just those involved at night.
So if you push back the years a few, won't they just be 5x more likely to crash then?
Nope. Because they will likely have matured. And the teen stats represent, overwhelmingly, boys - not girls. Boys are more often stupid in cars than girls. Go figure.
Of course you do not see that. My teenage sons don't quite understand it either ... well, one learned the lesson the hard way when he did a stupid thing that cost him $900. Now he acknowledges my point.
Your thinking is typical of teenagers. All of us were there. Fortunately, when we got older, we looked back, shook our heads, muttered how dumb we were, and thank God we survived some of our more egregiously stupid acts.
<---I'll be Pro's Lent surrogate.
