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Teen Curfew?
by Jennifer Morron
10 Mar 2006
In a car with my boyfriend and some of our friends, I was listening to the loud bass of the song “Gasolina” by the
reggaeton artist Daddy Yankee, when I looked at my watch. It was already 10:03 p.m. and we were just heading to
a movie theater. “I’m having second thoughts,” I said. “Remember, I have to be home early.”
“Damn, Jen, you’re 18,” one of my friends complained from the back seat. “Why do you have to be home so
early?” But I decided to go home. The last time I had stayed out past my curfew, my mother punished me by taking
away my phone, and forbidding me from going out, for a week.
Now, parents like my mother are not the only New Yorkers who think a curfew is a good idea . Some members of
the New York City Council would like a citywide curfew for teenagers. The curfew would keep anyone under the
age of 18 off the streets and out of public places between midnight and 6 a.m. During those hours, police could
stop anyone who looked like a minor and ask for proof of age. It would affect the 24 percent of the city’s residents
who are under 18.
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