I think communities should impose a relatively lenient curfew if they feel like they have to impose one at all. If there is a bad enough problem it would be understandable, but I'm afraid by making them have to be in by a certain time would just anger the teenagers even more and make them act out even more so than before. Just because you impose a curfew doesn't mean you'll stop the problems you have with the kids. You have to enforce it, regulate it, and make sure parents cooperate with the authorities. Some parents don't really care what their children do and let them do what they want when they want. If you make this a mandatory thing, will the parents follow through with it? It's doubtful.
It's a sad reality that's becoming stronger and stronger, children and parental relationships are changing. Parents want to be more friend like than authoritative. We need to be able to get parents to act more like adult figures than teenagers and adolescents before we can expect their children to.
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