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Adolescent Bedtime Rules: Legal Effects Under Customary Law and Discretion
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Abstract
In daily life, children often get used to staying late or even staying up late because of the rebellion of adolescent psychology against the non-mandatory rules formulated by the family. To explore the legal effect of such rules, this article analyzes the regulation of bedtime according to customary law. The two criteria of discretion and strategic non-enforcement are used to support the reason why customary laws (incorporate the bedtime rule made by the parents) have real legal effects. Through legal case studies and the comparison and contraction of disobeying regulated bedtime, the author admits that such rules sometimes can be criticized, which jeopardizes the characteristics of enforcement and credibility for laws with certain unfairness and lack of enforcement. However, they can be refuted based on the progressive principle, the dynamic balance between rules and discretion, and another theoretical basis. Given the disputes raised in this paper, the author also put forward the corresponding improvement measures after each refutation. To put it in a nutshell, the author thinks that the family rules produced in the absence of hard punishment like the regulated bedtime.
Keywords
customary law, discretion, strategic non-enforcement,incremental adjustment strategy
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Wei,M. (2024). Adolescent Bedtime Rules: Legal Effects Under Customary Law and Discretion. Advances in Social Behavior Research,10,66-68.
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