If a must…what is a good curfew for a responsible 19 year old girl?
You folks that think there should be no curfew don’t live in the same world I live in (where 19 year old girls wind up missing and/or dead) and where nothing good goes on the world after about 1 AM – Im a 47 year old mom of 2 boys – one is 24 and in the Navy (living in Italy) and the other is a 19 year old (living at home and going to college) and YES he has a curfew…..we take it on a case by case basis but normally it is 1 AM – First of all, his step dad and I have to WORK so we don’t want to be awakened by him tromping in at all hours and secondly, I don’t want to be worried about where he is and if he is ok. Its called respect, for you young folks who think you shouldn’t have to “answer” to anybody. If you don’t want this or don’t like this then perhaps you should not be living in your parent’s house with them helping to take care of you. Im a little fed up with a generation of entitleists – who think the world OWES them something – you better learn that the world owes you nothing
I don’t recall having any curfews when I was 19… (Then again, I wasn’t living at home, then.) A year or two later I was, and I don’t recall a curfew then, either. I just came home as quietly as I could. My mom said she almost always knew when I came home, though (She worried, and didn’t sleep well until everyone was in the house. I found THAT out later in life.) MANY mornings I didn’t come home until around 5AM, when the computer room at college shut down. My kids lived with their mother, and I don’t recall them having a curfew, either. Then again, most of the people they hung with came to their house. They DID have to be quiet after 10 or 11, so they wouldn’t wake their mom up, though. BTW: I’m 53, now.
