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States Should Raise Driving Age, Says Insurance Safety Group
National News • September 10, 2008
Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver's license to 17 or even 18.
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| RE: RE: TEENS | Shield | Sep 11, 2008, 2:35 pm |
| To "Mike" & "Learn Responsibility" | SFOInsuranceLady | Sep 11, 2008, 2:04 pm |
| RE: TEENS | cheli | Sep 11, 2008, 1:48 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | Mark | Sep 11, 2008, 12:23 pm |
| I say NJ stats suggest otherwise | Reality Check | Sep 11, 2008, 11:51 am |
| RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | the old man | Sep 11, 2008, 9:43 am |
| driving is a right? | Stat Guy | Sep 11, 2008, 9:42 am |
| RE: wudchuck | Stat Guy | Sep 11, 2008, 9:30 am |
| RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | RS | Sep 11, 2008, 9:29 am |
| RE: RE: TEENS | Stat Guy | Sep 11, 2008, 9:20 am |
| RE: RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | Dread | Sep 11, 2008, 7:28 am |
| RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | Its about consequences | Sep 10, 2008, 6:37 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | SFL | Sep 10, 2008, 4:58 pm |
| RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | Learn Responsibility | Sep 10, 2008, 4:47 pm |
| RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | wudchuck | Sep 10, 2008, 4:46 pm |
| RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | Learn Responsibility | Sep 10, 2008, 4:36 pm |
| RE: RE: 18 | SFOInsuranceLady | Sep 10, 2008, 3:58 pm |
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| RE: RE: 18 | GMJ | Sep 10, 2008, 3:50 pm |
| RE: 18 | wudchuck | Sep 10, 2008, 3:45 pm |
| Graduated licensing | Interested mother | Sep 10, 2008, 3:40 pm |
| 18 | RS | Sep 10, 2008, 3:21 pm |
| RE: 18 | SFOInsuranceLady | Sep 10, 2008, 3:04 pm |
| RE: RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | AFranks | Sep 10, 2008, 2:27 pm |
| RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | chuck lutes | Sep 10, 2008, 2:10 pm |
| 18 | Rocket Scientist | Sep 10, 2008, 2:01 pm |
| RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | SFL | Sep 10, 2008, 1:57 pm |
| RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | AFranks | Sep 10, 2008, 1:48 pm |
| Lazy and Uninvolved Parents | SFOInsuranceLady | Sep 10, 2008, 1:30 pm |
| wudchuck | AFranks | Sep 10, 2008, 1:12 pm |
| RE: Questionable Data | Careful | Sep 10, 2008, 1:04 pm |
| RE: former teen, wudchuck and Mr obvious...wake up | SP | Sep 10, 2008, 12:57 pm |
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| former teen, wudchuck and Mr obvious...wake up | Baxtor | Sep 10, 2008, 12:49 pm |
| RE: Graduated drivers licensing | Compman | Sep 10, 2008, 12:49 pm |
| Graduated drivers licensing | Mr. Obvious | Sep 10, 2008, 12:30 pm |
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| RE: RE: TEENS | imateen | Sep 10, 2008, 10:38 am |
| Questionable Data | InsIsMyPassion | Sep 10, 2008, 10:35 am |
| RE: TEENS | former teen | Sep 10, 2008, 10:21 am |
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Subject: RE: RE: Lazy and Uninvolved Parents
Teaching is not ignoring - it's taking the time to point out the dangers, the consequences, the right and the wrong. Then you meter our responsibility as it is earned.
But when done right and started early (it's never too early to teach responsibilty)16 is as good an age as any.
Watching the kid you love take responsibility and face consequences may be the hardest thing for any parent to do; but if you truly love them you will train them through it, not get them out of it. It's the lazy parent that teaches their kid to avoid responsibility - cause it's easier to complain than train.
To punish those of us that were ourselves taught and now teach responsibility and maturity because of lazy folks...well, you decide what's right about that.