Youth Rights & Responsibilities
21 to Smoke
Over the decades a lot has changed about smoking it's: prevalent use, impact on health, the tools we use with it, even what we call it. The once widely popular habit took a nose dive when people real...
Dangers in Driving on Prom Night
Car accidents are the leading cause of death for teenagers in the United States. In 2014, 2,270 teens ages 16-19 died in motor vehicle accidents . That is equal to six teens dying in accidents every d...
Drinking and Driving
You know what kills more teens every year than anything else? Car crashes. And almost 1/4 of all car crashes involve an underage driver who’s been drinking. As everyone knows, when you drive a car you...
Minors & Guns
Laws are put into place to ensure safety for the overall population as well as guarantee rights for individuals. The “right of the people to keep and bear Arms…” is detailed in the 2nd Amendment of th...
Curfew
My mom and dad are so mean, they won’t let me stay out on a school night past 10pm. Why is that? I have to be in by midnight on Friday and Saturday nights. How come I can’t stay out as late as I wa...
What is Curfew?
A curfew prohibits anyone under the age of 18 from being outside or in a public area without adult supervision. A county, city, or town ordinance determines curfew times and disciplinary action can be...
Alcohol and Work
It's a well-known fact that you cannot drink until you are 21. This law is in place to prevent the harm alcohol can cause, from bad health to intoxication to the deadly effects of drunk driving. Arizo...