The Negative Effects Of Teenage Curfew

Adolescence and curfews go hand in hand in today’s generation. Some people are still not perfectly aware of what adolescence is so first, let’s discuss a bit on it. Adolescence is a stage every human faces in life. It is the period in which the child gradually turns into and adult and in that phase, they face puberty. Basically, it is a phase teens go through from the ages 13- 19. The individuals are in a very critical state at this time as they start feeling grown up and undergo many changes. Hence, they become furious, frustrated and may inherit positive or negative changes. They get influenced very quickly at this age and prefer that people stay out of their way. This is a very critical stage for parents as well because they have to be

Researchers Mike A. Males and Dan McAllister said that statistical analysis hasn’t proved that teenage curfews have lessened down crimes. According to the research done by these two gentlemen, there is no relation between teenage curfews and youth crimes. They have said that there is no such proof that suggest that youth crimes have decreased due to teenage curfews. They believe that youth crimes have actually increased due to teenage curfews and things are going out of hand as well because it is hurting a teenagers ego and they are becoming vulgar and carelessly have been indulging into illegal activities leading to increase in youth crimes. These are the few points which these two researchers have highlighted and even according to my survey, 45% of the people think that teenage curfews rarely decreases youth crimes, 27% think they do, 18% think sometimes they do and 9% think they do not decrease youth crime at all. Even though people have different opinions, majority have said that teenage curfews have rarely decreased the rate of youth crimes. This is because teens are still indulging into illegal activities even after the curfews have been set which has no effect on the rate of youth crimes. Instead, according to my survey, 73% of the people have voted that teens tend to indulge into unwanted activities more often

Governments have already set teen curfews as laws, but the question is whether this is the correct thing or not. According to some citizen groups like the Citizens against the Dallas Daytime Curfew, teenage curfews should not be set as laws. The main reason they have for this statement is that they think that if a teen breaks a curfew law he has to pay certain fines, etc. But, even if there is no curfew law, and a teen violates a law he will still have to pay the penalties. So there 's no point of keeping teenage curfew laws. Also, according to their research, when teenage curfews are set as laws, it puts parents under more pressure financially and mentally. So they see no reason as to why teenage curfews should be set as laws. On the other hand, another group of citizens think that it is excellent that governments have been setting teenage curfews as laws and their main reason is because they believe that parents aren’t fulfilling their duties as a parent. Parents aren’t really taking care of the teens and mostly are unaware of stuff, so it’s the government 's job to take action and handle the situation. They firmly believe that if the parents aren’t proper than the government has the rights to take care of the nation and hence, teenage curfews must be set as laws. They also believe that instead of setting night time curfews, daylight curfews should be set because a lot