[Joe Hadenuf]

What are these minors doing outside the house at this time of the night? When will we start persecuting parents for negligence?

HAhaha ha..People get kidnapped in broad day light at greedy mart parking lots, in their bedrooms etc...The time don't mean squat..

As kids get older they stay out longer and slowly part from Mom and Dad...LOL

[TamiPie]

Obviously I'm not alone in this thought, eh, Joe?

Yep, kids do stay out later when they get older, and some unfortunately meet with trouble in the dark.

[TopQuark]

As kids get older they stay out longer and slowly part from Mom and Dad...LOL This used to be true.

The problem is, nowadays, it is the parents who separate from children. It is parents that abrogated their responsibility. And, it is fully understandable given the hardships of modern American life: when you have children and have to take care of them, you can't take as many trips to the mall. The next thing you know, you have to watch your own behavior, can't even swear at the dinner table...

Nay, that's way too hard. It is so much better to hire the "journalists" who will inform us (we don't read anything else) that children mature earlier than before. Bingo! They mature early? Let them hunt for themselves, let them make their own decisions. They want to stay late --- fine, let them be wherever they may at 2 a.m. And, if they get in the harm's way --- well, that's tragedy for the parent, not his irresponsibility.