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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank god I grew up in the 80's. My wonderful parents would tell us to be in by dark. No cell phones, no Uber, no social media.

Teenagers have it rough these days. [/quote]

Op here. This is how I grew up. Most of my friends were raped in the age 15-17. [/quote]

That's how I grew up too, and as far as I know, none of them were raped. There, now we have two anecdotes. Also, how would cell phones, Uber, and social media have prevented this?[/quote]

+1 Now instead of riding their bikes or getting a ride from a parent they are ubering around to friends' houses, to the mall, etc.  I don't know that this is safer...[/quote]

No not instead of but  in addition to walking, riding their bike, taking metro, taking a Ride On.

My kids ride their bikes/walk/bus/metro and uber... if it is pouring rain or if it is too far or the metro does not go there, they might uber. or if there is construction on the shoulder (this happened on the street between our house and the pool) they ubered once because I was visiting a sick family member.

I drive them 1000/1001 times. But every blue moon they uber.

Why do you picture kids raised like wolves ubering everywhere when we are talking about 10x a year tops.

Also, my 16 year old ubering was way less expensive than adding him to my car insurance. [/quote]

At 16, kids need to learn to drive well and they don't get enough experience if they are Ubering instead of driving before leaving for college.    Yes, it may be cheaper, but part of driving in gaining a life skill and getting the experience to drive safely.

I don't get the excitement of Uber.  I've done it a few times when traveling as only my husband could drive the rental and kids and I wanted to go out.  I found it strange being in someone else car and they weren't too thrilled to see kids, even well behaved ones.  I'm surprised a driver would risk picking up a minor.[/quote]

I agree. My H works for a company and they give driving tests before they drive company cars and NYers don't get hired all the time due to their driving.

I think people are missing the point... nobody is saying kids are ubering all the time. Many kids are ubering sometimes. I don't have enough cars for every single adult in my house to have a car every single night. Sometimes that means they stay home, sometimes they uber.

Nobody is excited about ubering. Just like nobody is excited about taking the metro or the bus..

But if my daughter is 15, she can't drive. If she is with a group of friend and they are ubering to get food, I might let her go, I might not... but it won't be because I don't allow ubering.

I will say that uber got my kids out of some drinking parties without having to call mom or make their driver leave. [/quote]

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