[DainBramage]

IMO your very wrong. I have a daughter 18, one 17, a son 16, and a daughter 15. They all have cell phones. Three of them because they drive alone at night and in this day age its a risk to let them be alone without one. The youngest has one to contact the others too pick her up and take her places when my wife and I are out of touch. They dont all have tons of minutes and they pay for their own texts.

[Coleus]

I could list over 100 million people who lived through their teen aged years and made it. We drove at night, worked at night, went to school during the day and at night. We even lived through the depression, WWII, nuclear bombs, fallout shelters, air raid drills in schools, the riots of 1968. Heck, we even walked to school and some actually woke up at the crack of dawn to work on farms while today, the sniveling liberals want to start school at 10 am for the poor teens because they can't sleep at night and can't wake up early. They don't make enough melatonin to fall asleep. One of these days the umbilical cord must be cut.