Pros and Cons

There are both positive and negative things to teenage curfew. Some of the arguments against teen curfew are if a child is coming home from a school related event, a job, or something along the lines of that. Because they are coming home late, they are forced to worry about the time and want to rush home, which can cause wreckless driving and therefore danger. Another thing is curfew was intended to prevent crime but some people believe people who are committing crimes will still commit the crimes, just earlier in the day.

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Some arguments for teen curfew are that is really helps prevent crime in youth involving drugs, violence and gangs. Imposing youth curfews can help prevent these actions from occurring because children need to be off the streets and in a home before the hours of darkness, which hopefully will keep them out of trouble. There is no good reason for children to be out late at night when they should be home interacting with family and friends in a safe enviroment. Zero tolerance is a really important rule in some comunnitites and teenage curfew is a way of putting zero tolerance into effect.

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