Would you let your 16-year old drive 100 miles away and stay out till past 3AM?

[Torie]

My parents let me drive at 16 about 1700 miles to Alberta, Canada and the sights in-between with a friend. My bias is that parents tend to be over-protective, particularly these days as they freak out from all that cable TV crime crap sensationalism. Thank heavens mine were not. They let me run free. That is as it should be if you demonstrate that at the end of the day, the end result will probably  not be a crash and burn.

Now of course if I had a kid under-performing in school, he or she would be totally grounded, and the internet access truncated. The tele would be sent to storage.  My priorities would be made crystal clear.

[Torie]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

Assuming your comment was animated by the hour mentioned (3 am) that assumes there is a curfew law in the locality, and that the teen is out and about, as opposed to engaging in indoor sports, or whatever. I certainly was not prowling the streets at 3 am at 16. Why would I want to do that?

So you might want to revise and extend your remarks.

[Torie]

Well no, because that would be illegal...

That assumes there is a curfew law in the locality, and that the teen is out and about, as opposed to engaging in indoor sports, or whatever.

So you might want to revise and extend your remarks.

Same problem though. Driving age is 17 here. But, yeah, that were a cop-out answer. The real answer is still "no". Wouldn't buy a car for a teenager. Ever. No blood on my hands (ideally).

That sounds a bit like a rather Draconian risk averse regime that you have in your mind's eye for your issue.  Be a Baysian; look at the odds. The odds are our friends.

Of course, you need to "know" your issue, to make a reasoned judgment.