# teens not wanting driver's license---why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-not-wanting-drivers-license-why/615469>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 11, 2012, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-not-wanting-drivers-license-why/615469 "2012-03-11T17:03:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teens-not-wanting-drivers-license-why/615469/262 "2014-09-09T16:25:11Z")

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> [@Boyo\_Jim](#):
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> Seriously? Hving a kid in my family choose a motorcyle would make me cringe and cry. It’s not a matter of their competence, it’s a matter of being so much more vulnerable and exposed to all the other idiots behind the wheel.

Of course I fear for her, just like I fear for her grandfather and her parents when they ride. Just like my father feared for me when he heard his klutzy baby girl was riding her bicycle up and down the island of Manhattan in the middle of the night.

We take risks in our family. I can’t see that as a bad thing, really. But I understand why others would disagree.

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