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Teen Curfews Are Bad
What would you think if the government limited you to the amount of time you can be outside? that you couldn't be out after dark? Teen curfews are limiting teens to when they can be out and when teens have to go in. Teen curfews are a bad idea.
The first reason for teen curfews being a bad idea is because it forces teens to have a deeper connection with their parents. “The fact is this: teens don’t want to hang with their parents on a weekend night”(Teen curfews at malls are unfair). Some teens have bad relationships with their parents, others are more individual people.
The second reason of teen curfews being a bad idea is because teens would not buy as much. “Shutting teens without parental chaperoned out of the shopping mall on the busiest
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