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Question: At what age do you not have a curfew?

Answer:

This depends on who sets the curfew - your parents or the city where you live. Parental curfew's are discretionary.  Meaning,  it is up to your parents what time they want you in the house.

In the City of Phoenix curefew is 10 pm for kids under 16 and midnight for kids over 18.

Visit the City of Phoenix website for more information on city laws and specific curfew definitions.


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On 02/01/08
aj from AZ said:
Kids these days seem to have a sense of entitltement that is completely misplaced. As minors you are still learning and refining problem solving and decision making skills. Not all parents truly parent their children and I for one am glad there is a curfew to help enforce what many parent cannot/do not control. If a teen is out late at a location their parents are cool with, fine. To think it is wise to be roaming the streets late at night is just something a kid would say... Not a good idea.
On 11/06/07
carebe from OH said:
i think that there should only be a cufew for kids under the age of 14 because the perants have a say so over what time kids shouuld be in by the rasied them all these year s so why should the sate step in an try to tell them how to rasie them it is not right at all
On 09/07/07
Nate from FL said:
All children under the age of 15 should have a curfew on school days, they have no buisness being out on the streets past 10 o'clock, you have school and homework, if parents would enforce these rules the law would not have to step in.
On 04/06/07
DEZ from OR said:
WELL I HATE HAVING A CURFEW ITS SOOOOO BADD I DONT EVEN KNOW WHY WE HAVE THEM..ITS JUST LIKE HAVING PUNISHMENT OR SOMTHIN I THINK THIS WHOLE CURFEW THING IS SOOOOO STUPID...
On 07/14/06
atedogs from AZ said:
I am a parent of a 15 year old and have come close to being arrested due to the curfew being violated by 10 minutes. I personally don't believe in it, it is my child and I should be the one to rule it but of course there are always ones that abuse it. Anyway, my daughter can't even do to a movie because most of them end after 10 that she wants to go to and she is 15. I am liberal in this area as long as the kid is a good kid and not out making trouble at 2am.
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