RE: North Carolina city implements curfew for all minors
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I don't know. Either treat the kids like adults or hold the parents accountable. To do both seems like double jeopardy.
Also, while misbehaving kids might well be the fault of parents in many cases, I don't think that is always the case. What are you supposed to do in extreme cases? Handcuff them in their rooms? Stay up all night guarding them?
I was never much of a troublemaker and my kids haven't been either (so far anyway). But after a certain age, I can see how it might be difficult to contain them if they were determined not to be.
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I think a lot of this boils down to good parenting. When I was a kid I didn't really know anyone who didn't have good parents (and both of them) but as I got into high school I knew people who had the "cool parents" and while these parents were great at letting us smoke in the house and what not, all of the kids of these parents that I knew didn't grow up to accomplish very much in their lives. Kids need discipline to succeed in most cases. I don't try to speak for everyone but that does seem to be the case in every situation that I have encountered.
I don't know what to do in this particular situation but if the locals are being terrorized by teenagers at night, doing nothing isn't the answer.